194, Lot: 206. Estimate $150. Sold for $370. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 27mm (16.74 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Astarte standing facing, foot on prow, holding scepter and placing right hand on trophy to outer left; to outer right, Nike on column, crowning Astarte; palm tree to inner left, murex shell to inner right. Rouvier 2350; SNG Copenhagen 364 var. (bust type); BMC 396. VF, brown patina with a dusting of light earthen deposits.