CNG 84, Lot: 844. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Pautalia. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ Pentassarion (29mm, 14.00 g, 1h). Draped bust right / OVΛΠIAC, ΠAVTAΛIAC in exergue, The Charites (the Three Graces) standing, the left and right facing, the middle with back to view; left and right Charis each holding urn from which liquid flows. Staal 18.1.1 var. (rev. legend); Ruzicka 449 var. (same); Varbanov 886 var. (same). Good Fine, dark green patina. Unpublished variety of a very rare issue for the city and empress.

From the Mark Staal Collection.

The reverse die of this coin appears to be a reused one of the issue, naming the hegemon, Sicius Clarus.