Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 663. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Heliopolis. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ 29mm (18.29 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Temple precinct, containing temple, altar, and urn, with approaching stairway left on rocky and wooded outcropping; all viewed from aerial perspective; caduceus in left field. SNG München 1036 var. (urn, not caduceus, in left field); SNG Copenhagen 435; Price & Trell 703. VF, mottled green, brown, and red patina, rough surfaces, some deposits. Rare.