441, Lot: 352. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tridrachm (24mm, 8.18 g, 11h). Laureate head right; c/m: laureate and draped bust right of Caracalla(?) within oval incuse / Tyche seated left on throne, holding palm frond; below, half-length figure of river-god Cydnus, radiate(?), swimming left; throne decorated with sphinx; all within pelleted border. Prieur 761 for coin & 779A (this coin) for countermarked issue; SNG Levante 998 var. (obv. legend); SNG BN 1401; RPC III 3262; for c/m: Howgego 843. VF, toned, light porosity, graffito in right obverse field; c/m: VF. Prieur places these issues under Caracalla. Rare with countermark on obverse.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 79 (14 IOctober 1996), lot 445.