Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 610. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $2950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Halicarnassus. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ 32mm (21.69 g, 12h). Stratokleos, archon. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cult statue of Zeus Askraios facing between two trees, each surmounted by an oracular crow; name in two lines in exergue. SNG von Aulock 2534; SNG Copenhagen 384; BMC 88. Good VF, dark brown patina, minor roughness. Rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.