Ex Lindgren Collection

375, Lot: 112. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ Dichalkon (30mm, 15.44 g, 12h). Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front / Eagle standing right, head left, with wings spread and wreath in beak; murex shell to left; behind, vexillum with banner inscribed LEG / III / GAL in three lines. Rouvier 2512-3; AUB –; BMC –; Lindgren & Kovacs 2397 (this coin). Good Fine, rough red-green surfaces.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Henry Clay Lindgren Collection.