CNG 84, Lot: 871. Estimate $500. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CAPPADOCIA, Caesaraea-Eusebia. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. AR Tridrachm (25mm, 8.46 g, 12h). Dated RY 18 of Severus (AD 210). IOYAIA ΔO-MNA • AYΓOY, draped bust right / MHTPO KAICAPIA NЄΩK, Mt. Argaeus; to left of summit, nude male figure holding scepter; to right of summit, three nude male figures, that on the left smallest (Geta), that in the middle largest (Severus), and that on the right of a height between the two (Caracalla), each raising hand; ЄT IH (date) in exergue. Sydenham,
Caesarea -; Berk BBS 166, -; Berk BBS 167, lot 432 (same obv. die). EF. A highly interesting piece recording a lost dynastic monument and which, between obverse and reverse, carries images of the entire imperial family.