Watch List notes:

SYRIA, Decapolis. Nysa-Scythopolis. Marcus Licinius Crassus. Proconsul, 54-53 BCE. Æ (20mm, 5.39 g, 12h). Dated CY 10 (54 BCE). Head of Crassus right / Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding cantharus and leaning on thyrsus; ΓAB NY in two lines to left, L-I (date) to right, Λ in exergue. RPC 4827; Barkay 5 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS -; Rosenberger 3 (same obv. die). VF, black patina, earthen highlights around devices, some smoothimg. Only 8 specimens known to Barkay.


From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.