Very Rare Variety

375, Lot: 106. Estimate $100. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Dichalkon (28mm, 12.01 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from front / Olive tree between the Ambrosial Rocks; in exergue, murex shell and hound at bay left. Rouvier –; AUB –; BMC p. cxli and pl. XLIV, 7 var. (murex and hound left; rev. only illustrated); CNG E-368, lot 292. Good Fine, dark brown patina. Very rare.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre.