71, Lot: 113. Estimate $75. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleukis and Pieria. Antioch. Hostilian. Æ 30mm (18.01 gm). Struck 251 AD. Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Tetrastyle temple of Tyche of Antioch, river-god Orontes swimming at her feet; above shrine, ram leaping right, head left. BMC Galatia etc. pg. 225, 628; SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, brown patina with some red encrustation, light smoothing. Rare.
Duplicate from the Richard McAlee Collection.