Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 821. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Capitolias. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ 33mm (26.31 g, 12h). Dated CY 93 (AD 189/90). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche, holding uncertain object (stone?) and scepter, standing left within arched central bay of hexastyle temple, set on three tiered base; retrograde Ч Γ (date) above roof line. Spijkerman 13; SNG ANS -; Meshorer, City-Coins -; CNG 69, lot 1226 (same dies). VF, green patina with traces of earthen overtones, some roughness. Heavier than the Spijkerman specimen. Very rare.