208, Lot: 203. Estimate $75. Sold for $76. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ 17mm (4.64 g, 12h). Laureate and draped bust right / River-god Chrysoroas reclining left, holding two grain ears and cornucopia, left elbow resting on urn from which water flows. Rosenberger 15 corr. (under Nero); SNG München -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, dark brown patina.

Ex Dix, Noonan, Webb (29 September 2008), lot 5700.

The Rosenberger specimen with a bearded portrait is certainly not a coin of Nero.