341, Lot: 57. Estimate $150. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. Æ (29mm, 15.01 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / Marsysas standing left, with wine skin over shoulder, within tetrastyle temple with pellet in pediment; below, star and crescent flanking grotto containing river-god Chrysoroas reclining left on overturned amphora from which water flows, holding grain ears and cornucopia; Π[ΗΓAI] (“source”, i.e., of the Chrysoroas) in exergue. De Saulcy 9; Rosenberger 40; BMC –. VF, brown surfaces, light porosity.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.