375, Lot: 103. Estimate $150. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Dichalkon (30mm, 17.52 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Hexastyle temple, containing Tyche-Astarte standing facing, with hand on trophy and being crowned by Victory on column to right; in exergue, lighted altar between palm tree and murex shell. Rouvier 2363; cf. AUB 225; cf. BMC 393. VF, brown surfaces.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre.