Impressive Portrait

215, Lot: 432. Estimate $200. Sold for $262. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ 34mm (22.44 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Laureate and draped bust of Apollo right, and draped bust of Tyche left, wearing kalathos, vis-à-vis; pellet between, cornucopia behind Tyche. SNG France 1047 (same dies); SNG Levante 783 var. (destribution of rev. legend, laurel branch before Apollo, no pellet); SNG France SNG von Aulock 5848 var. (laurel branch before Apollo, no pellet). Good VF, pleasing tan-brown patina, reverse die shift. Wonderful portrait.