170, Lot: 186. Estimate $100. Sold for $326. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.70 g). Struck AD 209-211. AVT KAI CEOVHPOC CE, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Eagle standing facing, head left, wreath in beak; murex shell between legs, club below. Cf. Prieur 1534; cf. Bellinger 295. VF, greenish surfaces from an incomplete cleaning, a little rough. Unrecorded obverse legend lacking CEP after KAI. See CNG E144, lot 210 for another example from the same obverse die and different reverse die.