Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1447. Estimate $150. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Hostilian. As Caesar, AD 250-251. Æ 8 Assaria (16.82 g, 6h). Bare-headed and draped bust right / 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 1164 (this coin); Butcher 502d. VF, brown patina. Rare.
From the Richard McAlee Collection.