165, Lot: 140. Estimate $75. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Tomis. Philip II. As Caesar, AD 244-247. Æ Pentassarion (27mm, 14.17 g, 2h). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust of Philip II, seen from behind, and draped bust of Sarapis, wearing modius, left, vis-à-vis / Tyche standing facing, holding scepter and cornucopia and placing foot on Pontus standing left. AMNG I 3613; Varbanov 4691. VF, dark green patina.

Tomis was the city of exile for the Roman poet Ovid, who composed his Tristia and Ex Ponto there.