CNG 90, Lot: 1147. Estimate $300. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ (29mm, 14.10 g, 5h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Tyche of Tyre standing right, raising hand above lighted altar; to right, distyle temple, containing club of Hercules-Melkart, seen in perspective above murex. Cf. Rouvier 2566; cf. BMC 490 (Gallienus; for rev. type), p. cxl and pl. XLIV, 12 = Hunterian 60 (Volusian); Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 453, 55; Gemini VI, 786. Near VF, green desert patina. Very rare.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.