355, Lot: 333. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Ace-Ptolemais. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (24mm, 11.93 g, 12h). Laureate and draped bust right / Aphrodite, nude but covering breasts and groin with hands, standing facing within shrine; at feet to left, [griffin seated left]; winged caduceus at feet to right. Kadman 253 corr. (griffin described as Eros on dolphin); Sofaer 297 corr. (griffin described as Marsyas). Good Fine, dusty green patina, irregular planchet.

The statue of Aphrodite is from a series of so-called Venus Pudica types, all deriving from Praxiteles’ famous Aphrodite of Cnidus.