442, Lot: 820. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (28mm, 33.31 g, 7h). IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [COL T]Y-RO M-ET, male figure (Kadmos?) running right on prow, looking back and beckoning companions with right hand, holding spear in left hand; murex shell in left field. Rouvier –; BMC 489. Near VF, earthen green patina. A rare type. Struck on an unusually thick and heavy flan.

Bought from David Miller, 2003.

This coin is struck on a blank some 6.5 mm thick, making it much like a modern “piedfort.”