181, Lot: 304. Estimate $100. Sold for $165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ 28mm (20.94 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Astarte standing facing, holding cruciform scepter and aphlaston, resting foot on prow; to right, column surmounted by Nike. Rouvier 618; SNG Copenhagen 130; BMC 273-4. Near VF, green patina with earthen deposits.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.