Eros and Psyche

CNG 93, Lot: 756. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Serdica. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Tetrassarion (31mm, 14.97 g, 1h). Laureate head right / Eros, standing right, and Psyche, standing left, preparing to embrace. H&J, Serdica 12.18.16.1 (same dies as illustration); Ruzicka –; Varbanov 2312 (same rev. die as illustration). VF, dark olive-brown patina. Extremely rare.