341, Lot: 69. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Volusian. AD 251-253. Æ (24mm, 11.85 g, 7h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Agonistic urn containing cypress, inscribed OΛY[M]ΠIA/ CЄBACMIA; below, ram’s head right between I–Є (= ίερά). Cf. De Saulcy 6; Rosenberger 58 (bust type); BMC 32 var. (same); SNG München –; SNG Hunterian 3462 (same dies). Fine, brown patina, porosity.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.