356, Lot: 390. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (31mm, 1551 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; c/m: head of Melqart right / Astarte standing facing, placing right hand on trophy and holding scepter in left, being crowned by Nike on column; Marsyas to inner left, murex shell to inner right. Rouvier 2358; BMC 390; for c/m: Howgego 15. VF, brown surfaces.