CNG 108, Lot: 443. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Philippopolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (40mm, 41.36 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 214. Laureate heroic-style bust left, wearing aegis, seen from behind / KOINON ΘPAKΩN AΛEZAN ΠYΘI/A EN ΦIΛIΠ/Π-O , emperor on horseback right, about to spear fallen enemy. Mouchmov, Philippopolis 364; Varbanov 1421. VF, green-brown patina. A number of heavily tooled specimens of this type have been on the market in recent years. This piece has even surfaces devoid of the usual tooling and smoothing. Rare thus.