CNG 99, Lot: 485. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Dium. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (30mm, 27.34 g, 12h). Dated CY 270 (AD 207/8). AVT KA · C CЄOVHPOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔЄIHNωN above, OC (date) KOI below, bearded river-god reclining left on overturned amphora from which water flows, holding large reed in right hand, cornucopia in left; tree in left field. Sofaer 8 (same dies; Adraa); otherwise unpublished. VF, green patina, minor roughness. Extremely rare and only recently published type.

See Triton XVIII, lot 901, for a similar year 268 issue and a discussion on the reattribution of this issue from Adraa to Dium.