Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 898. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Autonomous issues. Æ 23mm (7.35 g, 12h). Dated CY 33? (49/8 BC). Radiate and draped bust of Helios right / Artemis standing left, holding scepter; ΓΛ? (date) down left field; ΗΛΙ in exergue. SNG München 853-4 var. (letter combinations); cf. SNG Copenhagen 319 (for type) and 320 (Zeus/tripod-lebes; same letter combinations); BMC 11. EF, black-green patina.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.