224, Lot: 490. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Nisibis. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ 28mm (11.84 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche right; above, ram (Aries) leaping right, head left; star behind to upper left, star before. BMC 5 var. (slight drapery on bust); SNG Copenhagen 233 var. (no star behind Tyche); SNG Hunterian -; SNG Righetti 2618 var. (slight drapery, no star behind Tyche); SNG Milan 118 var. (no star behind Tyche); Lindgren & Kovacs -; Lindgren III -. Near VF, green patina, a bit rough.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.