355, Lot: 340. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (29mm, 14.35 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; c/m: head of Melqart right / Astarte standing facing, placing right hand on trophy and holding scepter in left, being crowned by Nike on column; palm tree to inner left, murex shell to inner right. Rouvier 2349; BMC 388; for c/m: Howgego 15. VF, earthen green patina.