Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 715. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PALMYRENE, Palmyra. Pseudo-autonomous issue. 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Æ 15mm (2.80 g, 1h). Nike standing left, holding palm, setting scales on cult xoanon set on base / Facing bust of Baal, wearing polos, between radiate bust of the sun-god Yarhibol right, and bust of moon-god Aglibol left, vis-à-vis. Krzyźanowska, Monnayage Type I; SNG München -; BMC -. Near VF, brown patina with some hard green and earthen deposits. Rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.