289, Lot: 250. Estimate $250. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26mm, 10.79 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Sacrifice to Melqarth-Hercules: Tyche standing right, both arms raised, before flaming altar; in background to upper right, club within distyle temple seen in perspective; murex shell to right. Rouvier 2536 var. (rev. legend); BMC 490 var. (same); AUB –. Near VF, green patina, earthen highlights. Rare.