344, Lot: 353. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (30mm, 16.41 g, 7h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche-Astarte, holding scepter and being crowned by Nike set on column to right, standing facing within tetrastyle temple with central arch, pediment, and acroteria along roofline; Marsyas(?) standing right in left wing of temple. BMC 243 var. (arrangement of legend and position of Marsyas); SNG Copenhagen –; Lindgren III –; AUB –. Near VF, brown surfaces, some roughness.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.