370, Lot: 296. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (27mm, 13.87 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tetrastyle temple, with pellet in pediment and containing facing bust of Tyche-Astarte between two signa; in exergue, lion right. Sawaya 2172-83 (D382/R– [unlisted rev. die]); BMC 235 var. (galley in exergue); AUB –. VF, green patina, a few cleaning and adjustment marks.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.