172, Lot: 112. Estimate $150. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus and Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ 31mm (16.92 g). Conjoined, draped busts of Severus (radiate) and Domna (crescent beneath) as Helios and Selene; c/m's: COL and CAG / Satyr Marsyas standing left, holding wine-sack over his shoulder. Meyer, "Die Bronzeprägung von Laodikeia in Syrien 194-217," in JNG 37/38 (1987/1988), p. 83, 78; Howgego 586 and 581 (for countermarks). Near VF, black patina with some spots of red and minor earthen highlights.

From The John A. Seeger Collection.