188, Lot: 279. Estimate $150. Sold for $756. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 20mm (21mm, 6.11 g). P. Quinctilius Varus, legate. Struck 6-4 BC. Bare head right / Two aquilae. RPC I 4535.23 (this coin); AUB 35-36; Rouvier 493. VF, patina stripped and now retoning, light roughness, a little off-center.

From the Richard Prideaux Collection.