201, Lot: 290. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Gabala. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ 25mm (12.18 g, 11h). Laureate head left / Deity standing facing on pedestal, holding bipennis and shield; head of horse to either side of pedestal; to right, Tyche seated left, holding rudder. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; H. Seyrig, “Cultes de Gabala,”
RN (1964), p. 24 (noting two in the ANS and two in Paris). VF, sandy brown patina, light roughness. Rare and interesting type.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.