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CNG 90, Lot: 1139. Estimate $300.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Petra. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (27mm, 13.94 g, 12h). Struck AD 211-217. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Tyche of Petra, holding baetyl and trophy, seated left on rock outcropping within distyle temple; pellet in pediment. Meshorer, City Coinage -; cf. Spijkerman 45A (illustrated example with c/ms); SNG ANS 1370. VF, black-green desert patina. An attractive provincial portrait coin of the older Caracalla.


From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.