Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1504. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $870. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Bostra. Septimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ 28mm (13.63 g, 12h). Conjoined busts right of Septimius Severus, radiate, draped, and cuirassed, and Julia Domna, draped, wearing stephane, and set on crescent / Tyche standing facing, holding trophy and cornucopia, foot on river-god below, swimming right; on either side, forepart of Centaur right; all within tetrastyle temple façade with arched central bay. Kindler 25a; cf. Spijkerman 34-5; SNG ANS 1202 var. (bust type for Domna) . VF, brown surfaces, light overall roughness.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.