Rare Provincial of Annia Faustina

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 677. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $4210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Annia Faustina. Augusta, AD 221. Æ 26mm (10.21 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Car of Astarte: cult xoanon, flanked on either side by small figure, within ornate tetrastyle canopy, set on two-wheeled base; four palms emerging from roof of structure. Rouvier 276; cf. AUB 279 (Julia Paula); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, red and green patina.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex M&M Numismatics I (7 December 1997), lot 273.