Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1128. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ 28mm (16.54 g, 6h). Draped bust right / Hercules standing left, with lion skin over forearm and holding club, pouring libation from phiale over lighted altar; ambrosial stones above; at feet to left, murex. Rouvier -; AUB 205; SNG Copenhagen-. VF, blue-black patina. Rare.

From the James E. Cain Collection.