315, Lot: 247. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (30mm, 18.95 g, 12h). 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 1697-1700 (D335/R694); BMC 179-80 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 114 (same obv. die). Good Fine, green surfaces.