Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 868. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 27mm (14.67 g, 12h). Dated CY 282 (AD 218/9). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Galley with eight oarsmen left; at prow, figure standing right, hortator at stern; date above, wreath below. Spijkerman 88; Rosenberger 80; SNG ANS 1330 var. (date). VF, earthen green patina, areas of light smoothing. Rare.