208, Lot: 215. Estimate $200. Sold for $455. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ 30mm (15.93 g, 1h). Laureate and cuirassed bust left / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding club and cornucopia; above, ram leaping left; to left, Marsyas standing right; below, lighted altar flanked by four deities wearing mural crowns and extending arms towards Tyche. Rosenberger -; cf. SNG München 1024 (similar rev. type on coin of Otacilia); BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, dark brown patina with some red. Unpublished in the standard references.
Ex Dix, Noonan, Webb (29 September 2008), lot 5722.