160, Lot: 264. Estimate $75. Sold for $73. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESOPOTAMIA, Singara. Gordian III, with Tranquillina. AD 238-244. Æ 34mm (24.08 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III on left vis à vis diademed and draped bust of Tranquillina on right / AVP CE
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GAPA, Tyche seated left on rocks, holding branch; Centaur Sagittarius leaping left and discharging bow above, river-god below. BMC Arabia pg. 135, 8-11; SNG Copenhagen 256. Near VF, black patina under some earthen encrustation, light roughness.
From the Garth R. Drewry Collection; Ex Thomas McKenna MBS I (September 1979), lot 20.