227, Lot: 359. Estimate $300. Sold for $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAPPADOCIA, Caesaraea-Eusebia. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. AR Tridrachm (24mm, 7.56 g, 5h). Dated RY 17 (AD 209). Draped bust right / Female(?) figure seated left on Mt. Argaeus, holding branch; ЄT IZ (date) in exergue. Sydenham, Caesarea -; Berk BBS 166, 538 var. (rev. legend); Berk BBS 167, 431 (same dies). VF, flan flaws, minor porosity. Very rare.

As noted in the description for Berk BBS 166, lot 431, of which the present coin is from the same dies: “The date on our coin may be an overdate; the Z is in high relief and seems to have been engraved over another letter.”