341, Lot: 75. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (31mm, 19.69 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hygeia standing right, feeding serpent from patera, and Asclepius standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff. Cf. De Saulcy 2; Rosenberger 60 (same dies, but on a much more compact flan); BMC –. VF, brown patina, pit on obverse.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.