208, Lot: 214. Estimate $100. Sold for $127. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ 28mm (18.35 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust left / Herakles standing left, placing hand on top of standard(?), holding club and lion’s skin; to upper left, ram’s head right. Rosenberger -; cf. SNG München 1019 (similar rev. type on coin of Philip I and Philip II); BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -. Fine, dark brown and red patina. Unpublished in the standard references.

Ex Dix, Noonan, Webb (29 September 2008), lot 5721.