375, Lot: 110. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Dichalkon (29mm, 18.73 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from front / Aeneas standing right in galley left, head left; murex shell to left. Rouvier 2449; AUB –; BMC –. Fine, patina stripped long ago, now retoned brown, minor porosity. Very rare.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 144, 26 July 2006), lot 211.