446, Lot: 218. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Aphrodisias. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Septimius Severus, AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (24.5mm, 7.29 g, 6h). Ti. Cl. Zenon, magistrate. Struck circa late 209-early 211. Draped and diademed bust right of Synkletos / Leafless tree of three branches; at left, Phrygian standing left, holding axe; at right, Phrygian standing right; both holding tree trunk with one hand. MacDonald, Coinage Type 103 (O149/R262); SNG von Aulock 2451 (same dies). Fine, dark green to black surfaces, some smoothing and minor tooling. Very rare type.