308, Lot: 267. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (28mm, 13.44 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The building of Carthage: Dido standing left, holding a ruler and scepter, surveying construction; mason above gate, worker with pick-axe digging before gate; murex shell in upper central field, palm tree to right of Dido. Rouvier 2375; BMC 409; AUB 245. Fine, dark greenish-brown patina, roughness.