Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1128. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ 28mm (16.54 g, 6h). Draped bust right / Hercules standing left, with lion skin over forearm and holding club, pouring libation from phiale over lighted altar; ambrosial stones above; at feet to left, murex. Rouvier -; AUB 205; SNG Copenhagen-. VF, blue-black patina. Rare.
From the James E. Cain Collection.