CNG 87, Lot: 888. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (20mm, 7.31 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Dionysus standing facing, head right, right arm resting on head, embracing satyr to right with left; to lower left, panther right, looking upwards; all framed by grape vines. Sawaya - (D380/- [unlisted rev. die]); BMC 241-3; AUB -; SNG Copenhagen 124 (same obv. die); Lindgren III 1390. VF, glossy green patina, light earthen deposits.