206, Lot: 302. Estimate $100. Sold for $335. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Anazarbus. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ 4 Assaria (13.86 g, 5h). Dated CY 272 (AD 253/4). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Dionysus, holding thyrsus, reclining on back of panther, head left, advancing right. Ziegler 826; SNG Levante 1516 (same dies); SNG France 2155-2156 (same dies). VF, brown patina, light roughness.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.