263, Lot: 269. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (28mm, 14.30 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; c/m: car of Astarte / Car of Astarte: cult xoanon within ornate tetrastyle canopy, set on two-wheeled base; two palms emerging from roof of structure. SNG Copenhagen 256; for c/m: Howgego 396. Near VF, earthen blue-green patina.