224, Lot: 483. Estimate $100. Sold for $82. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 24mm (8.08 g, 5h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Tyche seated left, holding branch or grain ears; altar to left; below, half-length figure of river-god swimming left. Cf. BMC 67 (holding branch); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Hunterian 2533 var. (river-god swimming right; same obv. die); SNG Righetti -; cf. SNG Milan (holding branch; same obv. die). VF, dark green, almost black, patina, earthen highlights.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.