Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1102. Estimate $250.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Tium. Trajan. 98-117 AD. Æ 32mm (23.56 gm). AVT NEP TPAIANOC KAICAP CEB GM D, Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / ZEVC CVPGACTEIOC TIANWN, Zeus Syrgastes standing left, holding patera and sceptre, eagle at feet. Waddington, RG pg. 619, 25-26 var. (bust type and legends); SNG Copenhagen -; Mionnet Supp. V pg. 258, 1503 var. (same); Weber 4933 var. (same). VF, orichalcum patina, some porosity. ($250)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.

Zeus Syrgastes represents the assimilation of Zeus with a local high god.