Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1115. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Capitolias. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ 27mm (8.71 g, 12h). Dated CY 93 (AD 189/90). Laureate bust right / Draped young male bust (Alexander the Great?) right; date across field. Spijkerman 15; SNG ANS 1274. VF, black-green patina with trace of orange overtone, light roughness.

Spijkerman identifies the youthful portrait as Alexander the Great, based on the city’s legendary tradition that he was its founder.