315, Lot: 258. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (28mm, 9.13 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The building of Carthage: Dido standing left, holding a ruler and scepter, surveying construction; mason above gate, worker with pick-axe diggin before door; [murex shell] in exergue. Rouvier 2501 var. (bust type); BMC 470 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen –. Fair, artificial green surfaces, smoothing, broken flan.