362, Lot: 304. Estimate $100. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Aquilia Severa. Augusta, AD 220-221 & 221-222. Æ Dichalkon (26mm, 12.60 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Dido standing left on deck of galley right, holding scepter and cornucopia; at stern, helmsman bending over rudder to left; sailor to right; stern decorated with shield and aphlaston; murex shell and palm frond in exergue. Rouvier 2400 var. (two murex shells in exergue); AUB –; BMC –. Near VF, earthen green patina. Very rare.