196, Lot: 127. Estimate $100. Sold for $410. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMAGENE , Germanica-Caesaraea (or Germanicopolis in Paphlagonia?). Plautilla. Augusta, AD 202-205. Æ 25mm (11.64 g, 12h). Draped bust right / Tyche seated right on rock, holding grain ears; river-god swimming right below. Butcher -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG München -; Lingren III 1127. Fine, green patina, a few edge splits.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

This coin type, unpublished in the standard references, was assigned to Germanica-Caesaraea by Lingren based on the partially preserved reverse legend of the specimen in his collection. The end of the reverse legend on this example, however, is better preserved and appears to read [..]IΛIC ЄC[...]. This could perhaps be a a slightly blundered form of ΓЄPMANIKOΠOΛIC ЄCTIA ΘЄΩN, found on coins of Germanicopolis in Paphlagonia.