Rare Laodicea Bronze

250, Lot: 258. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Domitian, AD 81-96. Æ (13mm, 1.67 g, 12h). Dated CY 132 (AD 84/5). Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche right / Nike advancing right, holding wreath and palm; BΛP (date) to right. RPC II 2033 (same dies as illustration); SNG Hunterian 3183 = Hunterian III p. 223, 5, pl. LXXV, 9 (Uncertain Syria; same obv. die). VF, dark green patina, deposits. Rare - two known to the authors of RPC (both in the Bibliothèque Nationale).

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.