160, Lot: 256. Estimate $150. Sold for $115. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ 25mm (11.76 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / M[HTPO EDECH]NWN, Tyche seated left, sacrificing from patera over altar; two stars in field, Orontes swimming below. BMC Arabia pg. 106, 93; SNG Copenhagen 217 var. VF, black patina with some earthen highlights.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection; Ex Ponterio 95 (18 August 1998), lot 540.