Eight Known to Barkay

CNG 90, Lot: 1127. Estimate $400. Sold for $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Nysa-Scythopolis. Marcus Licinius Crassus. Proconsul, 54-53 BCE. Æ (20mm, 5.39 g, 12h). Dated CY 10 (54 BCE). Head of Crassus right / Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding cantharus and leaning on thyrsus; ΓAB NY in two lines to left, L-I (date) to right, Λ in exergue. RPC 4827; Barkay 5 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS -; Rosenberger 3 (same obv. die); DCA 593. VF, black patina, earthen highlights around devices, some smoothimg. Only 8 specimens known to Barkay.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.