278, Lot: 236. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESOPOTAMIA, Nisibis. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ (25mm, 8.45 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche seated facing; above, ram (Aries) leaping right, head left; all within tetrastyle temple with facing bust in pediment; below, half-length figure of river-god Mygdonius swimming right. SNG Copenhagen 242 var.; BMC 17 var.; SNG Milan 122 (same dies). Near VF, rough brown patina. Rare variety.
Normally found with a tetrastyle temple with a domed inner roof and no decoration in the pediment.