CNG 87, Lot: 892. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Trajan, AD 98-117. Æ (26mm, 14.92 g, 1h). Dated CY 224 (AD 98/9). Laureate bust of Melqart-Herakless, lion skin tied around neck / Club with civic monogram at handle; legend (with date) in three lines across field; all within oak wreath. Rouvier 2233; BMC 331; SNG Copenhagen 339. Good VF, mottled green-brown patina.

From the HLT Collection.