146, Lot: 179. Estimate $200. Sold for $265. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria, Heliopolis. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ 28mm (13.39 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / [I O M H] COL HEL, bird’s eye view of the front and side of the temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus; smal altar left, cypress tree right. BMC Galatia pg. 292, 15 var.; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Munich -. Near VF, black patina with some red encrustation, light roughness.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection; Ponterio 115 (14 August 2001), lot 993.