387, Lot: 344. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Bostra. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tridrachm or Tetradrachm (25mm, 9.80 g, 7h). Struck AD 112-114. Laureate and draped bust right / Cult image of Artemis of Perge within distyle shrine; eagle in pediment. Metcalf, Tell Kalak 4 = SNG ANS 1161; Sydenham, Caesarea 190; RPC III 4071. VF, toned.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind 181.

Traditionally thought to be tridrachms, but more recently termed tetradrachms (see K. Butcher, “The silver coinage of Roman Arabia,” Judaea and Rome in Coins 65BCE-135 CE [London, 2012], p. 208).