255, Lot: 272. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ (25mm, 10.16 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Tyche seated left on rock outcropping; Δ or monogram to upper left, altar before; at feet, forepart of river-god Scyrtus swimming right. Babelon,
Edessa -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Hunterian -; SNG Milan -; SNG Righetti -; Excavations at Dura-Europos -; Lindgren & Kovacs -; Lindgren III -. Near VF, green patina. Possibly unrecorded with the letter or symbol on the reverse.