Extremely Rare Tarsus Didrachm

290, Lot: 270. Estimate $150. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Didrachm (24mm, 6.11 g, 6h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Tyche seated left on rocky outcropping, holding grain ears(?); at feet, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus swimming left. Prieur 789; SNG Levante -. VF, toned, porous. Only one specimen cited by Prieur.