375, Lot: 104. Estimate $150. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Dichalkon (29mm, 16.88 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; c/m: uncertain mark within incuse oval behind head / 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 patina, some roughness.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 228 (24 February 2010), lot 261.