341, Lot: 48. Estimate $150. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ (29mm, 19.14 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust left / Hercules standing left, holding woven fabric(?) over extended right arm, club and lion’s skin in left; in upper left field, ram’s head right. Unpublished in the standard references, but for others see: CNG 85, lot 657; CNG E-208, lot 214; Triton XV lot 1430; CNG E-308, lot 273. Good Fine, brown patina, earthen deposits.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.