CNG 88, Lot: 783. Estimate $750. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Serdica. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (30mm, 18.71 g, 1h). Laureate head right / Athena seated left on chair decorated with small Sphinx, holding patera from which she feeds a serpent entwined around tree to left; to right, owl standing left on large round shield decorated with straps. Ruzicka, Serdica 211 var. (obv. legend); Mouchmov, Serdika 170; Varbanov 2208; Triton XIV, 761 (same dies). Good VF, brown patina. Better than the Triton specimen (which realized $850).

From Group CEM.