203, Lot: 383. Estimate $200. Sold for $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 8 Assaria (31mm, 16.76 g, 6h). Radiate head right / Tyche seated left on pile of rocks, holding grain-ears; above, ram running left, head right; below, river-god Orontes swimming left; star to left, Δ-Є and S-C across field. McAlee 808A (this coin illustrated). Fine, brown patina, minor porosity. Extremely rare.

From the Richard McAlee Collection.