Rarer Variety with Ram Leaping Left

453, Lot: 190. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ 8 Assaria (31mm, 20.68 g, 11h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche seated facing, with river-god Orontes at feet, within tetrastyle temple; above, ram leaping left, head right. RPC IX 1851 var. (position of ram); McAlee 1151 var. (same); CNG E-382, lot 262. Brown patina, flan preparation marks. Near EF. Very rare variety with the ram leaping left instead of right.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 112 (13 April 2005). lot 155.