349, Lot: 326. Estimate $150. Sold for $165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ Dichalkon (27mm, 14.76 g, 6h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Hexastyle temple, containing Astarte standing slightly left, holding palm frond to left and being crowned by Victory on column to right; murex shell and lighted altar in exergue. Rouvier –; AUB –; BMC –. Good Fine, earthen brown patina, die break on the obverse. Extremely rare, and apparently unpublished.