302, Lot: 278. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (28mm, 14.93 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Facing bust of Astarte within tetrastyle temple; statues of Poseidon and two figures holding wreaths on roof; lion advancing right in exergue. Sawaya 2235 (D389/R856); BMC 238 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 122 (same obv. die);. VF, green patina, light roughness.