Watch List notes:

THRACE, Hadrianopolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (28mm, 13.24 g, 1h). Laureate and draped bust left, holding spear and shield decorated with gorgoneion / Demeter standing left, holding patera and serpent-entwined torch; at feet to left, serpent emerging from cista mystica. Jurukova 286 (V159/R277); Varbanov 3487 corr. (rev. description). VF, green patina, some roughness, flan crack. Attractive bust. Rare.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.