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369, Lot: 405. Estimate $100.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARCADIA, Orchomenus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (22mm, 5.84 g, 8h). Struck circa AD 198-205. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia. BCD Peloponessos –; BCD Peloponessos II –; BMC –; SNG Copenhagen –; cf. NCP p. 97 (Tyche holds patera and cornucopia). Good Fine, rough green and brown patina. Very rare.


From the J. S. Wagner Collection.

The BCD/LHS sale features this type for Septimius (1589.2), Domna (1587, 1588.4), and Geta (1588.5). NCP does not list a reference for its Tyche type of Caracalla. Since all other Tyche types from Orchomenus seem to depict the goddess with a rudder rather than patera, it is possible that the NCP description is erroneous.