The Building of Carthage

334, Lot: 252. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (29mm, 17.48 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The building of Carthage: Dido standing left, holding ruler and scepter, surveying construction; mason above gate, worker with pick-axe digging before gate, murex shell to lower left. Rouvier 2501; BMC 470. Near VF, green and brown patina, roughness.