375, Lot: 116. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ Dichalkon (28mm, 14.10 g, 5h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Sacrifice to Melqart-Hercules: Tyche-Astarte standing right, both arms uplifted toward distyle temple to upper right, seen in perspective and containing upright club; lighted altar and murex shell to lower right. Rouvier 2566 var. (rev. legend); AUB –; BMC –. Near VF, green desert patina. Very rare.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Patrick H. C. Tan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 90, 23 May 2012), lot 1147.