357, Lot: 290. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (28mm, 7.86 g, 6h). IMP C M AV ANTONINVS AV, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COL AVR PIA METRO/ SID, car of Astarte: baetyl within portable shrine. BMC 255. VF, earthen black patina.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 732943 (September 2002).