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168, Lot: 166. Estimate $150.
Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Commagene. Samosata. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 22mm (4.95 g). Laureate head right / Two turreted and veiled busts of Tyche facing one another, eagle between them. BMC Galatia pg. 120, 36; SNG Copenhagen 21. VF, dark gray patina under light earthen encrustation.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

The presence of two busts of Tyche would suggest a link between Samosata and another city. The closest metropolis would have been Edessa in Mesopotamia, 20 miles to the east across the Euphrates.