Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1465. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $510. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (9.63 g, 12h). Radiate head right / ΔΗMAPX ЄΞ VΠΑΤΟС • •T• Δ (sic), eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, Three Graces within laurel wreath. Prieur 1590 var. (rev. legend); Bellinger -. VF, porous, slight double strike on reverse. An apparently unpublished reverse legend variety for this issue.