407, Lot: 412. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Nisibis. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ (25mm, 11.82 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche seated facing, with ram above and river-god at feet; all within tetrastyle temple with uncertain object in pediment. Cf. BMC 17-24/25 (for obv./rev.); SNG Milan 122. VF, brown patina, some roughness. Rare variety.

From the François Righetti Collection.

Normally found with a temple with arched roof and no decoration in pediment.