Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1216. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Seleuceia. Elagabalus. 218-222 AD. Æ 31mm (17.17 gm, 12h). Radiate head left / CELEUKEWN, thunderbolt on pulvinar (draped couch). Cf. Butcher 479 (Antioch; same obv. die) / 92 (Seleuceia; expanded reverse legend); cf. SNG Copenhagen 409. Fine, brown patina. Rare. ($300)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (Peus 366, 25 October 2000), lot 1129.