332, Lot: 221. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (28mm, 15.53 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Poseidon advancing right, holding trident and grasping the arm of the nymph Beröe kneeling left, head right, holding small flower basket(?). Sawaya 1731 (D335/R702); BMC 184 (same dies). Near VF, green patina, earthen deposits.

This type reproduces the pedimental sculpture of Poseidon’s temple in Berytus.