Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 650. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. AR Tetradrachm (11.93 g, 1h). Struck AD 215-217. Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left; A beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 949; Bellinger 178 (same obv. die). VF, light overall porosity. Rare.