408, Lot: 341. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (29mm, 13.98 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Dionysus standing left, holding cornucopia and thyrsus; pellet to left, grain ear (resembling four pellets) in exergue. Cf. Sawaya 2106-7 (D381/R–). VF, green surfaces, some roughness. Struck on a broad flan.