Triton XVIII, Lot: 899. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Nicopolis Seleucidis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 6 Assaria(?) (29mm, 21.37 g, 6h). · AVT K M AYP CЄOY · · ANTΩNINOC CЄB ·, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; c/m: Nike advancing left, holding wreath in right hand, palm frond in left, within oval incuse / NIKOΠOΛITΩN CЄΛЄYKIΔOC, Tyche seated left on rocks, holding grain ear(?) in right hand; at feet, half-length figure of river god swimming left; ς (mark of value) in left field. Butcher 8; BMC –; for c/m: Howgego 263. Good VF, brown surfaces. Rare.
From the Edoardo Levante Collection.