CNG 90, Lot: 1128. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Decapolis. Pella. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (24mm, 14.06 g, 12h). Dated CY 282 or 283 (AD 219-221). [A]VT K M AVP ANTWNIN[...], laureate and cuirassed bust right, wearing aegis / [...] K CVN ΠEΛ[Λ...], Nymphaeum: central two-story distyle structure with figure in lower story, flanked by two-story tetrastyle wings with arched alcoves in space between; B or Γ ΠC (date) above. Cf. Meshorer,
City Coins 251; cf. Spijkerman 12; otherwise, unpublished. VF, dark green desert patina.
From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.