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325, Lot: 474. Estimate $150.
Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Edessa. Severus Alexander, with Julia Mamaea. AD 222-235. Æ (29mm, 17.76 g, 12h). Confronted busts of Severus Alexander right, laureate and cuirassed, and Julia Mamaea left, draped and wearing stephane / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding small temple; above, Aquarius(?) standing left, with water-skin over shoulder; four stars in field, altar to left; at feet, half-length figure of river-god swimming left. BMC 115 var. (rev. legend break). VF, green patina.


Alternatively, the figure above Tyche could represent Marsyas with a wine skin over his shoulder (a fitting motif as Edessa was a colonia), but one would expect him to be represented in the “canonical” pose in which he is found on colonial issues throughout the empire.