Antoninus Pius, AE35 of Ephesos, Ionia. AD 138-161. Alliance issue with Smyrna and Pergamum.

T AI KAICAR ANTWNEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left.
SMYR PERG EFECIWN OMON, cult image of Artemis Ephesia standing front with supports in the centre, between Nemesis standing right on the left, with wheel at foot and Asklepios standing front on the right, leaning on serpent-enwined staff.

BMC 403–404; Burstein 613; Karwiese 271, Franke-Nollé 305–11, Kampmann 45. (RPC temp 1118)

With permission of Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH, auction 193, lot 743, Sept. 2011.