Choice for Issue

255, Lot: 262. Estimate $200. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Dium. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (27mm, 16.31 g, 12h). Dated 268 (AD 205/6). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Flaming altar within hexastyle temple with central arch; eagle in pediment. Spijkerman 1 (same dies); Rosenberger 1 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 1277. Good VF, earthen green patina. Unusually attractive for type.