286, Lot: 252. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. 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 (35mm, 16.54 g, 12h). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding grain ears; below, river god Orontes swimming left; above, ram leaping left, head right; Δ-Є and S-C across field. McAlee 803a. Near VF, greenish-brown patina, minor roughness.
From the R. D. Frederick Collection.