169, Lot: 98. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAMPHYLIA, Side. Philip II. As Caesar, AD 244-247. Æ Pentassaria (32mm, 16.34 g). Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right; E (denomination) in right field / Athena standing right, holding spear, facing Demeter standing left, holding torch, jointly sacrificing over altar between them; above, pomegranate. SNG France -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC -. VF, olive-green patina, a little porous.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.

The reverse type was orginally a homonoia- “alliance” type for Side and Perga under Gordian III. See SNG France 859. This unrecorded variety keeps the main type but bears a standard Side legend.