Triton XVI, Lot: 739. Estimate $500. Sold for $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (25mm, 11.42 g, 12h). IMP CΛES M ΛV ΛN TONINVS ΛV, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TVRI [ORVM], sacred olive tree set on ground line; on either side, baetyls inscribed AMB/POCIЄ and ΠAI/TPЄ; in exergue, hound of Hercules right and murex. Cf. Rouvier 2411 (Julia Maesa); BMC, p. cxli and pl. XLIV, 7 var. (murex and hound left; rev. only illustrated); AUB 254 corr. (obv. described as Julia Maesa). Good VF, dark-green patina with earthen overtones. Extremely rare.