277, Lot: 158. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26mm, 12.96 g, 12h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Nude male figure (Kadmos?) standing facing, head left, with chlamys over arm, holding long scepter; murex above; to right, four stags running right. Rouvier 2548; BMC -; AUB -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Hunterian -; SNG Righetti -; ANS 1944.100.81979 (same dies). VF, dark green patina, light depsotis.

This reverse type also on coinage for Elagabalus (BMC 408), Gordian III (Babelon, Perses 2267; Rouvier 2434), and Valerian (Weber 8102).