409, Lot: 452. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (29mm, 13.82 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Melquart-Hercules standing left, placing hand on trophy and holding club and lion’s skin; to right, Nike on column, crowning Hercules. Rouvier 2496 var. (laureate bust); BMC –. VF, rough brown surfaces. Rare type.