160, Lot: 230. Estimate $150. Sold for $132. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Gabala. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ 23mm (6.99 g, 12h). Dated CY 143 (AD 111/12). Laureate bust right, aegis at point of bust / Astarte seated left, holding grain ears and sceptre; at feet, sphinx left; HKP to left, GMP (date) to right. Cf. BMC 4; SNG Copenhagen -; cf. Mionnet Supp. VIII p. 162, 179. Good VF, brown and dark olive patina. An unpublished variety.