144, Lot: 223. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Hatra. Time of Hadrian. Circa AD 117-138. Æ 24mm (12.05 g). Radiate head of the sun god Shamash right / Eagle standing right, head tuned left, with open wings over an inverted SC; all within laurel wreath. Slocum Series I, 3; SNG Copenhagen 232. Near VF, glossy dark green, almost black, patina, minor roughness.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.