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CNG 97, Lot: 517. Estimate $300.
Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ (27mm, 12.17 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Tyche of Tyre standing right, raising hand above lighted altar; to right, distyle temple, containing club of Hercules-Melkart, seen in perspective above murex. Cf. Rouvier 2566; cf. BMC 490 (Gallienus; for rev. type), p. cxl and pl. XLIV, 12 = Hunterian 60 (Volusian); Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 453, 55; Gemini VI, 786; CNG 90, lot 1147 (same obv. die). VF, earthen black-green patina. Very rare.


From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.