241, Lot: 203. Estimate $150. Sold for $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Dupondius (27mm, 11.54 g, 6h). Rome mint, for circulation in Syria. Dated Cos. II (AD 98-99). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠAT B in two lines within laurel wreath. McAlee 498A (same dies); Sydenham, Caesarea 228 var. (without aegis). Good VF, tan patina. Extremely rare.

From Collection RW.

Struck from an obverse tetradrachm die (see McAlee 434/1).