407, Lot: 337. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Septimius Severus, with Caracalla. AD 193-211. Æ (24mm, 14.82 g, 12h). Confronted busts of Caracalla and Septimius, both laureate, draped, and cuirassed / Tetrastyle temple containing figure of Astarte being crowned by Nike on column. Sawaya Series 77. VF, brown and green patina.

From the François Righetti Collection. Ex Lanz 92 (4 June 1999), lot 786.