CNG 91, Lot: 618. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 8 Assaria (34mm, 20.93 g, 5h). Laureate head right / Tyche seated left on rocky outcropping, holding grain ears; above, ram leaping left; crescent to upper left, Δ-Є flanking Tyche; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming left. McAlee 802b/1 (same dies). Good VF, earthen green patina, small pit on obverse. Great portrait.
From Group CEM.