Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1267. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Gordian III. 238-244 AD. Æ 23mm (7.82 gm). Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Dionysos standing left, holding rhyton and thyrsos; at his feet to left, panther reclining left, looking up. Baramki, AUB 123-126; J. Rouvier, "Numismatique des villes de la Phénicie: Berytus," JIAN 3 (1900), pg. 307, 604; BMC Phoenicia pg. 89, 245-249. Good VF, desert patina. ($150)