CNG 85, Lot: 659. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. Æ (30mm, 15.61 g, 1h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / Tyche of Damascus seated left on rock outcropping, holding rudder and cornucopia, river-god Chrysorrhoas swimming left; above Tyche’s arm to left, ram, with head right, leaping left. Saulcy 3; Rosenberger 39. Good VF, green patina, earthen deposits. Very rare.