307, Lot: 224. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (27mm, 13.00 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Sacred olive tree set on ground line; on either side, baetyls inscribed [AMB/POCIЄ and ΠAI/TPЄ]; in exergue, hound of Hercules discovering murex shell. Rouvier 2391; BMC p. cxli and pl. XLIV, 7 var. (position of murex and hound switched); AUB 254 corr. (obv. described as Julia Maesa). Fine, dark green patina, earthen deposits.