321, Lot: 175. Estimate $100. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Chalkis ad Libanon. Lysanias. Tetrarch, 40-36 BC. Æ (19mm, 6.19 g, 12h). Diademed head right; monogram below chin; c/m: VAR monogram within incuse square / Athena Nikephoros standing left; monogram to right. Herman 12; RPC I 4770; HGC 9, 1449; for c/m: Howgego 659. VF, green-brown patina, deposits. Rare.

Howgego reads the monogram as VAR and tentatively suggests it could belong to P. Quinctilius Varus, Roman general at the fateful Battle of the Teutoburg Forest..