Best known and exceptionally pedigreed
Lot 70
Price: 1750 CHF
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PHRYGIA. Hierapolis. Time of Trajan to Hadrian, 98-138. Assarion (Bronze, 20.5 mm, 7.16 g). ZEYC BΩZIOC Bare head of Zeus Bozios to right. Rev. IEPA-ΠΟΛEΙΤ-Ω-Ν Male figure (Mên?), holding reins in right hand and bipennis over left shoulder in left, riding horse right. BMC 42. Lafaille 170 (this coin). RPC add. 2358C. SNG Copenhagen 429. SNG Munich 223. SNG von Aulock -. Weber (1913) p. 28, 1. A spectacular bronze from the Lafaille collection. Extremely fine.
From a European collection, and that of Maurice Lafaille, Münzen und Medaillen 76, 19 September 1991, 517 acquired from Spink/Gallerie des Monnaies, 10 October 1977, 245.
