181, Lot: 301. Estimate $100. Sold for $156. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ 27mm (15.51 g, 1h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Facing bust of Astarte within tetrastyle temple; statues of Poseidon and two figures holding wreaths on roof; lion advancing right in exergue. Rouvier 597; SNG Copenhagen 122; BMC 228-9. VF, green patina, light deposits.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.