315, Lot: 245. Estimate $100. Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Aradus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (27mm, 10.60 g, 1h). Dated CY 476 (AD 217/8). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cypress tree flanked by zebu and lion with star above head; signa behind each, Є-ς[OV] (date) in exergue. Rouvier 418; AUB 226 corr. (same date, but attributed to Elagabalus); SNG Copenhagen –. VF, green patina, earthen deposits, a hint of smoothing in obverse field.