348, Lot: 484. Estimate $150. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Antiochia ad Maeandrum. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ (37mm, 16.52 g, 5h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Zeus seated left on throne, holding crowning Nike and scepter. RPC IX online 773.2 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good Fine, reddish-brown and green patina. Very rare, with only one other example cited in RPC.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 137, 12 April 2006), lot 552; Empire Coins FPL 36 (January 1987), no. 111; Malter 34 (13 December 1986), lot 726; Münzen und Medaillen Basel 41 (18 June 1970), lot 397.