138, Lot: 178. Estimate $100. Sold for $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Gaza. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ 23mm (9.26 g). Dated CY 248 (AD 187/188). Laureate head right / Io and the Tyche of Gaza standing clasping hands. Cf. Rosenberger 129 (year 249); cf. SNG ANS 941 (year 245). Good VF, dark green patina. Rare.

Ex Triton VI (14-15 January 2003), lot 580 .

The connection of the myth of Io with Gaza is extremely tenuous, but it must have been of significance to the inhabitants; she is both named on the coinage and appears in her transformed stat