Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 887. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYRENAICA, Cyrene. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ 30mm (18.91 g, 6h). Struck AD 103-111. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / DHMARC EX UPATO E, head of Zeus-Ammon right. Cf. Metcalf, Silver p. 83, note 1 (for attribution to Cyrene); Sydenham, Caesarea 232. VF, brown patina, minor areas or roughness. Extremely rare.

Attribution to Bostra: D. Hollard, “Le monnayage de la Legio III Cyrenaica frappé à Bostra sous Antonin le Pieux,” RN 2004, fig. 7.