Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1247. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ 25mm (9.43 g, 12h). Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / COL DAM-AS [METR], infant seated left on low stool, raising hands upward to stag above to right; [ram, head left, leaping right] in exergue. BMC 29; SNG Copenhagen -; Rosenberger 56. Good VF, black patina with dusty beige and gray-green overtones, very light adjustment marks on reverse.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

While the reverse of this coin must allude to the myth of Telephus being suckled by a doe, the engraver has clearly depicted a stag. Perhaps the die-cutter had never seen a deer before?