162, Lot: 278. Estimate $100. Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 29mm (16.22 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / TYP-I-O-RVM, Astarte standing facing, left foot on prow, placing right hand on trophy and holding sceptre, being crowned by Nike standing left on low column; palm left, murex shell right. BMC Phoenicia pg. 275, 400; SNG Copenhagen 364 var. (bust seen from behind). VF, brown surfaces, some scattered roughness.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.