232, Lot: 147. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (29mm, 13.73 g, 11h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Astarte standing facing, foot on prow, holding scepter and placing 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. Near VF, dark green patina under earthen deposits, some roughness.