Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 657. Estimate $250. Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003. Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CILICIA, Isaura. Caracalla.198-217 AD. Æ 27mm (18.15 gm). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, drapery on shoulder, aegis on cuirass / Tetrastyle temple with arched pediment, bust of Hercules on column within. SNG Levante 263 (this coin). Near EF, green-brown patina. Scarce city. ($250)
Levante describes the reverse bust as Septimius Severus, but the prominence of Hercules in the city's pantheon makes him the more likely object of a cult temple.