Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2, Lot: 404

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AE 52 mm Orichalcum medallion (52.86 
gm) of Hadrianothera, Mysia. Strategos Moschianos.

AVTOKPAT K MAPKOC ANTWNEINOC, laureate, cuirassed bust 
right, Medusa head on cuirass, slight drapery on left shoulder.
EPI CTR AVP ATTALOV MOCXIANOV ADPIANOQHPEITWN, TO B E A 
in fields, Caracalla in military dress standing left, 
holding spear, clasping hands with Asklepios who holds 
serpent-entwined staff, and crowned from behind by Tyche, 
polos on head and holding cornucopiae. 

Lanz, Munich 114, 26 May 2003, lot 508 (this coin). Peus 366 
(Burstein Collection), 25 October 2000, lot 584 (same 
obverse die). Otherwise unpublished. Second known specimen, 
and far better preserved than the other. 

For the coinage of Hadrianothera, see von Fritze in AMNG 
IV/1, pp. 194-208 and SNG von Aulock 1145-1161. 
Estimated Value: $ 5,750 
 
Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).