344, Lot: 349. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (24mm, 13.59 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Poseidon advancing right, holding trident and grasping the arm of the nymph Beröe kneeling left, head right, holding small amphora(?). Sawaya 1733-4 var. (D–/R704 [unlisted obv. die]); BMC 187 (same rev. die). Near VF, dark green-brown patina with touches of red.