CNG 90, Lot: 1121. Estimate $300. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ (30mm, 15.34 g, 12h). Dated CY 225 (AD 161/2). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Zeus Nicephorus enthroned left within tetrastyle temple; ЄKC (date) in pediment. RPC Online 6294 var. (bust type); Meshorer, City Coins -; cf. Spijkerman 51-2; SNG ANS -; CNG E-248, 305 (same obv. die). VF, dark green desert patina, minor roughness.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.