Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1257. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SAMARIA, Sebaste. Domitian. As Caesar, 69-81 CE. Æ 23mm (13.74 gm). Dated CY 109 (81/2[?] CE). Countermarked by Legio X Fretensis. [Laureate head right]; c/m: imperial bust right within incuse; LXF within incuse / [CEBACT] HNwN, Tyche standing left, folding globe and spear; [L]Q[P] in upper left field; c/ms: boar standing right; LXF above; dolphin beneath; all within incuse; galley right within incuse. For coin type: Cf. RPC I 4262; for c/m: Howgego 119, 291, 410, and 733i. Coin Fair; c/ms Fine-VF, brown patina. ($300)

The first two countermarks are barely visible, having been flattened by the subsequent application of the second pair.