172, Lot: 125. Estimate $100. Sold for $145. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 30mm (14.20 g). Radiate and cuirassed bust right / Hermes-Thoth standing left, holding papyrus roll and caduceus; ibis standing left before, murex shell on palm tree to the right. Rouvier 2529; BMC Phoenicia -; SNG Copenhagen -; cf. AUB 286 (same type for Valerian). Near VF, black patina under some light green earthen encrustation, adjustment marks.

From The John A. Seeger Collection.

See lot 139 for a Hermes-Thoth type from Hermopolite Nome.