341, Lot: 60. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Philip II. As Caesar, AD 244-247. Æ (26mm, 11.43 g, 12h). M I PHILIPPVS NOBB CAICA, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COL • ΔAMA • I • MOVETRO, Marsyas, raising hand and holding wine skin over shoulder, standing right before cypress tree; in exergue, ram’s head right. De Saulcy 3 var. or corr. (rev. legend); Rosenberger 51 var. (same); BMC –. VF, earthen brown patina.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.