163, Lot: 86. Estimate $75. Sold for $165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SAMARIA, Nysa-Scythopolis. Æ 20mm (6.48 g). Dated CY 130 (AD 66/7). Head of Dionysos left, wearing ivy-wreath / Shield and crossed spears, all within wreath. Barkay 13; Spijkerman -; RPC I 4835. VF, green patina, earthen deposits.

Nysa-Scythopolis was actually one on the cities of the Decapolis, but its position on the west bank of the Jordan river means that it is traditionally counted as a city in the Samarian region of Judaea.