Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1192. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Anazarbus. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ 4 Assaria (29mm, 16.07 g, 12h). Dated CY 272 (AD 253/4). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from front / Dionysus, head right and holding thyrsus, leaning left on back of panther, head left, advancing right; G-G across upper fields, BOC (date) and T • A • M • K in two lines in exergue. Ziegler 826.1 = SNG Levante 1516 (same dies); SNG France 2155-2156 (same dies). VF, green patina.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.