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Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1124. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. 
Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Petra. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 22mm (17.05 g, 12h). Struck AD 221/2. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / City-founder driving yoke of oxen right, plowing pomerium. Spijkerman 56; SNG ANS 1375-1376. VF, black-green patina with olive overtones. Overstruck on a bronze of Elagabalus from Tripolis in Phoenicia (cf. SNG Copenhagen 291), dated 533 SE (AD 221/2).