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CNG 108, Lot: 456. Estimate $750.
Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla & Geta. AD 209-211. Æ (33mm, 26.01 g, 6h). Confronted busts of Caracalla right and [Geta] left, both laureate, draped, and cuirassed; c/m’s: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse and ΘЄOY within rectangular incuse / Hekate standing left, holding patera over altar and torch. SNG Keckman –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; Karl 311 (same dies); for c/m: Howgego 536 and 188. Good VF, brown surfaces, smoothing on reverse.


Ex Gemini XII (11 January 2015), lot 389 (hammer $1800); Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 327 (28 May 2014), lot 826.

The name of the magistrate is not fully legible and difficult to determine with certainty. It does not, however, appear to be Tynchanontos, son of Philonos, as listed in the Karl catalog.