Choice for Issue

347, Lot: 414. Estimate $150. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ (22mm, 10.46 g, 1h). Struck AD 128-138. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Two inward facing aquilae within wreath. Rouvier 532; SNG Copenhagen 101; BMC 93-5. Near EF, two-tone green patina.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXVI (Summer 2001), no. 81.