442, Lot: 816. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (27mm, 13.78 g, 12h). IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AV, radiate and cuirassed bust right / COL TY-RO MHTR, “Dido building Carthage”; Dido stands left, holding rule and scepter; on left, city-gate with builder at work and man digging below; star in field above, [murex shell] below. Cf. Rouvier 2051; BMC 470. Fine, brown patina.

Ex Kovacs XI (19 June 1993), lot 196.