CNG 93, Lot: 1002. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.84 g, 6h). Struck AD 209-211. Laureate and draped bust right / Laureate head of Hercules-Melqart right, with lion skin draped around neck. McAlee p. 263, Fig. 23 (same dies); Prieur 1528 (same dies as illustration). Good VF, areas of tone. Very rare.

From Group CEM. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 385 (January 1977), no. 19.