196, Lot: 192. Estimate $100. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESOPOTAMIA, Rhasaena. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ 26mm (13.84 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Two Tyches clasping hands over lighter altar; to left, water-bearer (Aquarius) set on short column; to right, centaur (Sagittarius) advancing right, discharging bow; eagle above, river-god swimming right in exergue. Castelin 87b (same rev. die); BMC 30 var. (bust left); SNG Copenhagen 248. VF, black patina, some orange earthen highlights.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.