Commagene, Samosata Æ Oktachalkon. Circa 30 BC. Lion walking right / ΣAMOΣATΩ ΠOΛEΩΣ, Tyche seated on rock right, holding palm. RPC I 3849; AC 238; Kovacs 290. 15.35g, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. A highly attractive example of the issue.
From the property of a European Gentleman, privately purchased from Numismatik Lanz 2016-7.
RPC suggests the occasion for striking this issue may have been the siege of Samosata by Publius Ventidius Bassus and Mark Antony (vol. 1, p. 572).