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Triton XX, Lot: 469. Estimate $750.
Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (29mm, 13.20 g, 12h). [IMP] CAES M AV ANTONINVC (sic) AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery / T[V]–RI–O–RVM, Hercules standing left, placing right hand on trophy and holding club in left, being crowned by Nike on column; murex shell to inner left. Unpublished in the standard references, but see Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 20, lot 902 for reverse. Good VF, green patina, earthen deposits.


From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.