Choice 8 Assaria of Elagabalus

246, Lot: 348. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 8 Assaria (31mm, 19.86 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding grain ears; below, river god Orontes swimming left; above, ram leaping left, head right; Δ-Є and S-C across field; star in left field. McAlee 802a (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, brown patina, minor adjustment marks. Exceptional for issue.

From the Richard McAlee Collection.