369, Lot: 392. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Thuria. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (22mm, 4.20 g, 5h). Struck circa AD 198-205. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche standing left, holding patera over altar and holding cornucopia; Λ-A across field. BCD Peloponnesos 834.6 var.; BCD Peloponnesos II 2838 var.; BMC –; SNG Copenhagen –; NCP p. 66 var. Fine, greenish-brown patina. Very rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.

Neither of the BCD specimens appear to have an altar on the reverse, and an altar is not noted in NCP.