340, Lot: 277. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Diocaesarea. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (34mm, 24.03 g, 8h). Laureate head right; c/ms: eagle in oval, thunderbolt in oval / Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia. For coin: SNG Levante 670; SNG France 864; for c/ms: Howgego 337 and 469. Near VF, green patina.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 70 (21 September 2005), lot 639.

These countermarks, always found together on the coins of Diocaesarea, were certainly applied simultaneously, and represent cult objects of Zeus, the patron god of the city.