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405, Lot: 350. Estimate $100.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Raphanea. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (22mm, 7.39 g, 6h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Turreted male figure seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; eagles flanking, bull at feet. BMC 1 var. (bust type; Caracalla); SNG Copenhagen –. VF, earthen black patina. Scarce city and very rare type.


From the J. S. Wagner Collection.

Only two in CoinArchives. See CNG E353, lot 323 for the last we have offered, a much poorer specimen that hammered at $220.

From the same obverse die as lot 352.