The Rivers Lycos and Kapros

295, Lot: 308. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Laodicea ad Lycum. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (23mm, 6.14 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Wolf (λύκος) and boar (κάπρος) seated back-to-back, heads facing one another. SNG Copenhagen 591; SNG von Aulock 3862 var. (slightly different arrangement of rev. legend); SNG München –. Good VF, brown patina, edge split.

The reverse alludes to the chief rivers in the vicinity of Laodicea, the Lycos and Kapros.