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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1446. Estimate $150. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. 
Sold For $485. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Herennia Etruscilla. Augusta, AD 249-251. Æ 8 Assaria (16.62 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / Cult-statue of Tyche of Antioch seated facing with river-god Orontes below, swimming right; all within tetrastyle temple façade with arched central bay and conical roof set on ornate base; above, ram leaping right. McAlee 1171 (this coin); Butcher 502b. VF, dark-green patina with blue-black overtones, minor overall roughness.


From the Richard McAlee Collection.