368, Lot: 266. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ 8 Assaria (32mm, 20.19 g, 12h). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding grain ears; above, star above ram leaping left, head right; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming left. McAlee 824a var. (star in left field rather than above ram); McAlee Supp. –. VF, earthen black patina.