174, Lot: 160. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 26mm (6.83 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Astarte standing facing, foot on prow, placing hand on trophy and holding scepter, being crowned by Nike standing left on low column; Marsyas on left, murex shell right. BMC Phoenicia pg. 274, 390 var. (spacing of legend); SNG Copenhagen 364 var. (palm left); AUB 221 var. (same). VF, brown surfaces, some roughness.