308, Lot: 265. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (30mm, 15.36 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; c/m: car of Astarte within incuse square / Car of Astarte: cult xoanon within ornate tetrastyle canopy, set on two-wheeled base; two palms emerging from roof of structure. Cf. Rouvier 1494–1500; BMC 247; AUB 260; for c/m: Howgego 396. Good Fine, green surfaces, earthen deposits.