Watch List notes:

SYRIA, Decapolis. Petra. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (27mm, 13.94 g, 12h). Struck AD 211-217. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Tyche of Petra, holding baetyl and trophy, seated left on rock outcropping within distyle temple; pellet in pediment. Meshorer, City Coinage -; cf. Spijkerman 45A (illustrated example with c/ms); SNG ANS 1370. VF, black-green desert patina. An attractive provincial portrait coin of the older Caracalla.


From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.