360, Lot: 238. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Philippopolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (30mm, 18.00 g, 6h). AVΓ K M AVPH AИTΩИIИOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield decorated with gorgoneion / MHTPO ΦIΛIΠΠOΠOΛEΩC, Hercules reclining left on lion right, holding chalice and club. Varbanov 1512 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, dark brown surfaces, minor roughness. Very rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May 2002), lot 1217.