71, Lot: 96. Estimate $150. Sold for $223. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukis and Pieria. Antioch. Julia Mamaea, mother of Severus Alexander. Augusta, 222-235 AD. Æ 28mm (18.17 gm). Diademed and draped bust right / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding grain-ears and resting on rocks; star in left field, river-god Orontes swimming left below; above, ram leaping left, head right. BMC Galatia pg. 209, 491; SNG Copenhagen 257. Nice VF, green and brown patina with a few smoothed spots of red encrustation.

Duplicate from the Richard McAlee Collection.