CNG 88, Lot: 1040. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. Æ (29mm, 18.11 g, 12h). Draped bust right, set on crescent, wearing stephane / River-god Chrysorrhoas reclining left in grotto, holding branch and cornucopia; above, Marsyas standing left within tetrastyle temple; star and crescent flanking upper portion of grotto, altar to lower left of grotto, ΠΗΓAI in exergue. De Saulcy 9; SNG München -; Rosenberger 40. Good VF, black-green patina with earthen overtones.