Tyre under the Roman Empire

375, Lot: 80. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Pseudo-autonomous issue. temp. Domitian, AD 81-96. Æ Dichalkon (23mm, 1052 g, 12h). Dated CY 220 (AD 94/5). Laureate head of Meqart-Hercules right, with lion skin tied around neck / Club upright, with civic monogram at handle; ΚΣ (date) and Phoenician legend across field. RPC II 2066; Rouvier 2222-3; AUB 135-7; BMC 290-2. VF, brown patina.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 41 (29 October 2001), lot 64808.