Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1445. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ 8 Assaria (20.14 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Decius right / Veiled and draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown; star below; above, ram leaping right. McAlee 1147 (this coin); Butcher 501a. Good VF, earthen black-green patina.

From the Richard McAlee Collection.