106, Lot: 213. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Isaura. Caracalla. 198-217 AD. Æ 27mm (8.65 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; SNG France 498 (same dies); SNG von Aulock -. Good VF, mottled brown and green patina, some minor roughness.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.

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.