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172, Lot: 82. Estimate $100.
Sold for $185. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTUS, Amasia. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 31mm (15.35 g). Dated CY 208 (AD 208/209). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Altar of Zeus Stratios; eagle with open wings above, within a trapezoidal enclosure, tree to left of altar. RG 81 var.; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen 113 var. VF, dark brown patina, light roughness.


From The John A. Seeger Collection.

None of the published examples of this type show an eagle with an enclosure atop the altar.