Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1152. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Mallus. Trajan Decius. 249-251 AD. Æ 40mm (36.98 gm). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Macrinus standing left presenting small statue of Marsyas to Tyche standing right, cornucopiae over shoulder; on right stands Amphilochus crowning Macrinus and holding laurel branch, pair of yoked oxen standing right below; boar left in exergue. SNG Levante 1292 (this coin); SNG France 1931 (same dies); SNG von Aulock -. VF, heavy green patina under some earthen encrustation. ($500)

Ex Sternberg XI (20-21 November 1981), lot 359.