200, Lot: 285. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Philip I, with Philip II. AD 244-249. Æ 8 Assaria (29mm, 16.30 g, 11h). Struck circa AD 247-249. Confronted busts of Philip I, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Philip II, radiate, draped, and cuirassed / Turreted, draped, and veiled bust of Tyche right; above, ram leaping right, head left; star below; Δ-Є and S-C across field. McAlee 1000 (this coin cited). VF, brown patina, minor porosity. Rare.
From the Richard McAlee Collection.