Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 688. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Caesaraea Maritima. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (15.35 g, 1h). Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing facing on serpent-entwined and lighted torch, head and tail left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, bull’s head right. Prieur 1680; Bellinger 374. VF, toned, light overall porosity. Rare.