CNG 100, Lot: 1734. Estimate $1000. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 11.28 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 193. AV · K · Λ · CЄΠ · CЄOVHPOC ΠЄ-P, laureate head right / CЄΛЄVKЄΩN TΩN Π-POC TΩ KAΛVKAΔ/ΝΩ, Nike standing left on globe, holding wreath and palm frond. Prieur 739 = SNG Levante 734 var. (legends); SNG France –; BMC 23 var. (same). VF, toned, light porosity. Very rare type and possibly an unpublished variant.
See Rauch 95, lot 247 for another coin from the same obverse die. That seemingly unique variant lacks the globe on the reverse.