181, Lot: 302. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ 26mm (15.30 g, 12h). Laureate, 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 598; SNG Copenhagen 123; BMC 231-4. Near VF, dark green patina, some deposits.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.