A common coin, but a long
provenance from the 1800's (if I am looking these up correctly). My husband tells me that Sir Hermann
Weber was the physician to the queen and best friends with a
man alleged to be Jack the Ripper, but I haven't verified any of that.
I believe John
Work Garrett was an important railroad bigshot?
SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch.
Elagabalus. 218-222 AD. Æ 32mm (21.24 gm, 12h).
AVT K M AV AN TWNINOC E E, laureate
bust right,
slight drapery on far shoulder / ANTIOX EWN M KOLW,
Tyche of Antioch seated left, holding grain ears
river god Orontes below, ram running left above; D E above S C across
field.
BMC Galatia etc. pg. 206, 459; L&K 2008;
Weber 7969 (this coin).
(
Triton VIII) -- From the Garth R. Drewry
Collection. Ex John
Work Garrett
Collection III (Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts 29 March 1984), lot 468 (
part of); Sir Hermann
Weber Collection; William Webster
Collection.