CNG 88, Lot: 1044. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Capitolias. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (33mm, 20.37 g, 12h). Dated CY 108 (AD 204/5). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on shoulder / Zeus, holding Nike or eagle and scepter seated left within tetrastyle temple façade set on two-tiered base; crenellated towers flanking pediment surmounted by statue grouping H P (date) flanking pediment. Meshorer, City-Coins -; Spijkerman 16; Rosenberger -; SNG ANS -. VF, desert patina. Very rare.