Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 873. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 31mm (23.57 g, 12h). Struck AD 215-217. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Astarte-Tyche standing facing, head right, extending hand to trophy in left field, and holding scepter; at feet to left, Marsyas standing right, hands raised; at feet to right, murex; in right field, Nike standing left on small column. Rouvier 2311; cf. AUB 206-7; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. VF, thick green and brown patina, minor roughness. Rare.