344, Lot: 319. Estimate $100. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Metropolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (31mm, 15.11 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cybele seated left, holding uncertain object (patera?) and resting elbow on tympanum; lion at her feet. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, brown surfaces, some roughness.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.