Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 798. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Anazarbus. Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ Hemiassarion (5.56 g, 1h). Bare head right / KAICAPЄΩN TΩN ΠPOC ANAZAP (Z retrograde), three grain ears tied in a bundle. Ziegler, Ergänzungen 1 var. (rev. legend; same obv. die); Ziegler 34.1 var. (Claudius; rev. legend); cf. RPC Suppl. 4061/5 note; cf. SNG Levante 1367; cf. SNG Pfälzer 95-6; SNG France - . VF, dark green patina with traces of olive-green overtones. Very rare.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.