Triton XVIII, Lot: 900. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Nicopolis Seleucidis. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ 8 Assaria(?) (26mm, 13.46 g, 6h). AVT K [M] IVΛ–IOC ΦIΛIΠΠ[OC] CЄ[B], radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / NЄIKOΠO–ΛЄITωN CЄΛЄVKI[Δ]OC, two figures advancing left, heads right; to upper right, Eros flying right, holding torch; to lower right, H (mark of value) before half-length figure of river-god swimming right. R. Bland, “The coinage of Jotapian. Appendix: The coinage of Philip I from Nicopolis in Seleucia,” Essays Carson-Jenkins p. 205, 5b (this coin, illustrated on pl. XXXVI); Butcher 17 = BMC 3 var. (bust type, arrangement of rev. legend). VF, dark green patina, roughness. Very rare.

From the Edoardo Levante Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen GmBH 14 (16 April 2004), lot 679; G. Hirsch 175 (23 September 1992), lot 1310.