CNG 85, Lot: 665. Estimate $500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.38 g, 6h). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing left on ground line, head and tail left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; Charites (Three Graces) standing within wreath between legs. Bellinger 336 var. (bust type); Prieur 1612 var. (same); otherwise, unpublished. VF, porous. An apparently unique variety of an extremely rare issue for this ruler from this city.