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408, Lot: 344. Estimate $200.
Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Volusian. AD 251-253. Æ (24mm, 9.21 g, 6h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche(?) standing left, raising hand and holding cornucopia; altar to lower left, murex to lower right. Rouvier –; BMC –; AUB –; RPC IX 2045 corr. VF, earthen green surfaces. Extremely rare, possibly the second known. Better than the recently published specimen.


The reverse of the single specimen cited in RPC is off center, with the altar not visible.