51, Lot: 40. Estimate $100. Sold for $118. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus & Julia Domna. 193-211 AD. Æ 30mm (20.10 gm). Conjoined, draped busts of Severus (radiate) and Domna (crescent beneath) right, as Helios and Selene; c/m: COL or CAP? / Zeus seated left, holding Nike on globe who crowns him with wreath; beneath her a prize crown rests on a cippus decorated with pellets. Meyer, "Die Bronzeprägung von Laodikeia in Syrien 194-217," in JNG 37/38 (1987/1988), pg. 84, 82; Cohen 7; c/m: Howgego 586 or 581. Near VF, mottled red and green patina. ($100)