295, Lot: 315. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Didrachm (21mm, 6.69 g, 6h). Struck AD 112-117. Laureate and draped bust right, globe at point of bust / Mt. Argaeus with grotto at bottom containing large cult stone; second grotto(?) at top of mountain, series of stones lining base. Metcalf 67d (of his conspectus, but see 437-9 of the hoard catalog for most similar); Sydenham 210. VF, lightly toned, minor porosity.
From the Bruce R. Brace Collection.