CNG 91, Lot: 619. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ 8 Assaria (34mm, 24.24 g, 6h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Tyche seated left, head facing, on rocky outcropping between second Tyche to left, holding rudder and cornucopia, and emperor to right, crowning the seated Tyche; Δ-Є across field; below, half-length figure of the river-god Orontes swimming left. McAlee 837A. Good VF, brown patina. Very rare with this bust type.

From Group CEM.