Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 554. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Silandus. Caracalla. 198-217 AD. Æ 30mm (17.16 g, 11h). Helenus, magistrate. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Dionysus standing left; at feet, panther left with head right; EPI ELENOV in legend. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 3180 (same rev. die). Good VF, black-green patina with traces of earthen overtones. ($300)

The obverse die for this coin may have been recut from one for Septimius Severus.