373, Lot: 297. Estimate $200. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (27mm, 13.50 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Sacred olive tree set on ground line; on either side, baetyls inscribed AMB/POCIЄ and ΠAI/TPЄ; in exergue, hound of Hercules right and murex. Cf. Rouvier 2411 (Julia Maesa); BMC, p. cxli and pl. XLIV, 7 var. (murex and hound left; rev. only illustrated); AUB 254 corr. (obv. described as Julia Maesa); Triton XVI, lot 739. Good Fine, green-red patina, some roughness. Extremely rare.