168, Lot: 182. Estimate $100. Sold for $125. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Septimius Severus and Caracalla. AD 193-211. Æ 25mm (9.43 g). Struck AD 208. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla on left vis à vis laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Septimius on right / Tetrastyle temple of Astarte containing statue of goddess crowned by Nike on column. BMC Phoenicia p. 70, 122; SNG Copenhagen -; AUB 86. Near VF, dark brown and green patina, some smoothing in fields.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Struck for the 10th anniverseray of Caracalla's elevation to Augustus, AD 208