CNG 100, Lot: 1736. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (34mm, 19.76 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, drapery on far shoulder / Emperor as Triptolemus, sowing seeds from seed-bag held over left shoulder, standing right on garlanded cart being drawn by two winged and yoked serpents; AM/K above, Γ/B to left. SNG France 1509 = Waddington 4641 (this coin); SNG Levante –; SNG Levante Suppl. 266 corr. (not Waddington 4641 as stated; same dies); SNG von Aulock 6014 (same dies). VF, black patina. Strong portrait and highly interesting reverse type.

From the R.H. Collection. Ex Edoardo Levante Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 132, 1 February 2006), lot 125; Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 1186; Deaccessioned from the Départment des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques, Bibliothèque Nationale de France; William Henry Waddington Collection (c. 1896).