Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. 
Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 765. Closing Date:  Estimate $5000 Sold For $4250. Monday, 10 January 2005.

LYDIA, Germe. Septimius Severus, with Caracalla. 198-211 AD. AE 
Medallion 45mm (48.23 gm, 6h). Glykon, magistrate. 

AV KAI L CEPTIC CEVHPOC P KAI AU K M AU ANTWNEINOC EV, laureate and 
draped bust of Severus confronting similar bust of Caracalla.
EPI CTP GLUKWNOC B, GERMHNWN in exergue, nude Herakles seated left on 
lion skin draped over rock, holding club set on ground in right hand, 
kantharos in left; standing around him are: Apollo, nude but for cloak, 
holding plectron and lyre; Artemis in short chiton, grasping bow and 
drawing arrow from quiver; and a turreted Tyche, holding cornucopiae 
and placing wreath on Herakles' head. 

Ehling 160 (V1/R1); CNG Sale 42 (29-30 May 1997), lot 992 ($6900);
Giessener Muenzhandlung 64 (October 1993), lot 547; Fontana Collection
(Finarte, 26 November 1996), lot 1020 = Auctiones 8 (27 June 1978), 
lot 435; otherwise unpublished, but cf BMC Lydia pg. 85, 27 (this 
magistrate for Geta as Caesar). 
Extremely rare, one of five known (the fourth in Paris Cabinet). ($5000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

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