Rare Gabala Bronze

426, Lot: 355. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Gabala. Geta. As Caesar, AD 198-209. Æ (26mm, 8.90 g, 12h). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right; c/m: SΛ within oval incuse / Goddess, holding flower and scepter, seated left, with two sphinxes at feet; [...]NA to left. SNG Hunterian 3243; for c/m: Howgego 573. Near VF, earthen black patina, some roughness. Rare, one of two in CoinArchives.

From the François Righetti Collection. Ex Münz Zentrum 76 (10 November 1993), lot 278.