162, Lot: 261. Estimate $75. Sold for $77. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Cyrrhestica. Cyrrhus. Philip II. AD 247-249. Æ 29mm (14.62 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / DIOC-KA-TEB-ATOV, KVPHCTWN in exergue, Hexastyle temple of Zeus Kataibates, within which is the god seated facing, holding a thunderbolt and sceptre, eagle at his feet; above temple, ram leaping left, head right. BMC Galatia pg. 137, 34; SNG Copenhagen 49 ("Philip I"); SNG München 505. VF, black patina. some earthen highlights, light roughness.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.