CNG 97, Lot: 510. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Nysa-Scythopolis. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (28mm, 14.48 g, 12h). Dated CY 246 (AD 182/3). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche of Gadara, resting foot on river-god swimming below and holding scepter and Nike on globe, standing right within tetrastyle temple façade with arched roof; ςMC (date) in exergue. Barkay 33 (same obv. die); Spijkerman –; SNG ANS –; cf. Rosenberger –. Near VF, earthen black-green patina. Very rare.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.