Triton XVI, Lot: 740. Estimate $500. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ (27mm, 12.49 g, 7h). Rites of the Ambrosial Rocks issue. IMP C C VIBIV[S TREBO GALLVS AVG], laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COL TVR [I] METRO, IЄPI/A AM/BPOCI/ωN ΠЄ/TP ωN in five lines in left field, nymph Europa standing facing, head slightly left, holding uncertain object (baetyl or xoanon of Artemis-Astarte) in hands; at feet to left, protome of bull arising right; murex to right. Rouvier 2471 var. (rev. legend); BMC -; AUB -. Near VF, dark-green patina with earthen overtones. Apparently unique variety of an extremely rare type.