289, Lot: 234. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Nysa-Scythopolis. Marcus Licinius Crassus. Proconsul, 54-53 BCE. Æ (18mm, 2.73 g, 12h). Dated CY 10 (54 BCE). Head of Aulus Gabinius (or Crassus?) right / Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding cantharus and leaning on thyrsus; ΓAB NY in two lines to left, [L-I] (date) to right, [Λ] in exergue. RPC I 4827; Barkay 5; SNG ANS –; Rosenberger 3; DCA 593. Near Fine, mottled gray and brown patina, roughness. Rare.