CNG 93, Lot: 847. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAMPHYLIA, Side. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ 11 Assaria (31mm, 16.29 g, 1h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane; IA (mark of value) before / Tyche seated left on rocks; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Melas swimming right; all within tetrastyle shrine; pomegranate above, Δ–Є flanking roof of shrine. SNG France 933 var. (arrangement of rev. legend; same obv. die); SNG Pfälzer –. Near VF, rough green patina. Rare.

From Group CEM.

An interesting type which copies a very identifiable shrine found on the coinage of Antioch. The engraver even went so far as to copy the “Δ Є” found on the Antiochene types, which is generally thought to stand for the office of the emperor as tribune (Δημαρχικης Єξουςιας) or, more likely, for the four eparchies (Δ Єπαρχειων) which the Antiochene coinage would circulate in: Commagene, Coele-Syria, Syria, and Phoenicia.