Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 827. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Pella. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 31mm (18.00 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Façade of city nymphaeum: central two-story distyle structure with figure in lower story, flanked by two-story tetrastyle wings with arched alcoves in space between; above, elaborate cornice surmounts entire structure. Spijkerman 12 (same dies as illustrated coin); Meshorer, City-Coins 251. Fine, black-green patina with traces of orange overtones on obverse and coppery highlights on reverse. A very rare and important architectural type for this city.