296, Lot: 175. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus, with Caracalla. AD 193-211. Æ (30mm, 15.93 g, 1h). Struck AD 198-199. Confronted busts of Septimius Severus, on left, and Caracalla, on right, both laureate, draped, and cuirassed; c/m’s: COL and CAΓ / Galley sailing right; Pharos in background. Meyer 95 (V1/R1); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC -; cf. Price & Trell fig. 64 (“Berytus”); for c/m’s: Howgego 586 and 581. Fine, brown patina, earthen highlights. Very rare type.