289, Lot: 246. Estimate $250. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (28mm, 14.06 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cadmus or Aeneas advancing right from prow of galley, looking back and directing unseen comrades with right hand, holding spear and drapery in left; trophy and palm tree to left, murex shell to right. Rouvier 2381 var.; BMC var.; AUB 247 var. Near VF, earthen green patina, scuff on portrait. Rare type, and possibly unrecorded with trophy and palm tree in field.