Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1080. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Petra. Caracalla. 198-217 AD. AR Drachm (2.76 gm). Laureate head right / Tyche, turreted, standing left, holding baetyl and trophy. Butcher, "Two Notes on Syrian Silver of the Third Century AD," NumChron 1989, pg. 171 (dies not recorded). Toned VF. Very rare. ($300)

Butcher was able to locate only five specimens of this type, struck from 3 obverse dies and 3 reverse dies. A drachm from the same issue in the name of Geta appeared in CNG 60, lot 1407, and sold for $1100.