302, Lot: 277. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (30mm, 20.02 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche-Astarte standing facing, left foot on prow of galley, holding stylis and being crowned by Nike standing left on cippus; genii flanking; all within tetrastyle temple with shield in pediment and acroteria along roofline; below, two genii on dolphins facing central stairway above [two cups or altars]. Sawaya 1671 (D335/R685); BMC 176-7 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 114 (same obv. die). VF, earthen brown patina.