169, Lot: 138. Estimate $100. Sold for $106. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Rhasaena. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ 26mm (13.53 g). Radiate and cuirassed bust left / Founder plowing right with two yoked oxen; above, eagle standing right, head left, holding wreath in beak; in exergue, river-god swimming right between two palm-branches. Castelin 123; cf. BMC Arabia p. 127, 15 (wreath in exergue). Near VF, dark green patina, some earthen deposits.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.