Watch List notes:

PONTUS. Amisus. Caracalla, 198-217. Pentassarion (?) (Orichalcum, 35 mm, 23.10 g, 7 h). ANTΩNINOC•CЄBAC[T] Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla to left, holding spear and shield decorated with aegis. Rev. [A]MI[COY ЄΛЄYΘЄP]AC ЄTΟΥC / CMA Tyche seated left, holding rudder set on the head of a bearded male bust with her right hand and cornucopiae in her left. BMC -. Leu Web Auction 7 (2019), 636. RG -, cf. 120 (CY 248 and regular bust to right). SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Leypold -. SNG Paris -. SNG von Aulock -. Apparently the second known example. Struck slightly off center, otherwise, very fine.


From the collection of Jean-Pierre Righetti, inv. no. 43 (with collector's ticket), privately purchased on 19 August 1995.