245, Lot: 295. Estimate $100. Sold for $86. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (27mm, 13.96 g, 5h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Astarte standing facing, foot on prow, holding scepter; trophy on which Astarte places hand and palm tree to left, murex shell and Nike on column to right. AUB 230; BMC 397. VF, porous tan surfaces.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Struck after the suppression of Tyre’s colonial status, apparently for their support of Macrinus.