321, Lot: 358. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Augusta. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ (31mm, 21.43 g, 6h). Dated CY 233 (AD 252/3). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche seated left on rocks, presenting grain ears to female (Livia?) standing right; at Tyche’s feet, river-god Saros swimming left; ЄT ΓΛC (date) in legend. SNG France -; SNG Levante 1253 = Weber 7510 (same dies); Karbach, Augusta 114 (same dies). Near VF, green patina, roughness and pitting. Rare.

From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection.

Levante notes that the hairstyle of the female suggests that it is Livia, the wife of Augustus, in whose honor the city was named.