The Imperial Couple as Helios and Selene

229, Lot: 325. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ 31mm (21.50 g, 1h). Conjoined, draped busts of Septimius Severus, radiate, and Julia Domna, with crescent beneath, as Helios and Selene; c/m: COL / The satyr Marsyas standing left, holding wine skin over shoulder. Meyer 78; for c/m: Howgego 586. Fine, encrusted green patina.