169, Lot: 134. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Ma’nu VIII, Philoromaios, with Lucilla. AD 167-179. AR Drachm (17mm, 2.80 g). Diademed and draped bust of Lucilla right / Salus seated left, feeding from patera serpent arising from altar and holding cornucopiae. RPC IV -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. Good Fine, a little porous. Rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.

See Gorny & Mosch 108 (3 April 2001), lot 1551 for another example of this previously unknown type.