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418, Lot: 407. Estimate $300.
Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (30.5mm, 18.92 g, 5h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Astarte standing facing, left foot on prow of galley right, holding trident and resting hand on raised knee; to right, Nike standing left on cippus; all within tetrastyle temple with annulet in pediment, akroteria on roof; below, two genii on dolphins facing central stairway. BMC 175; AUB 101; SNG Copenhagen 114 (same obverse die). Good VF, dark brown patina with touches of green and red. Attractive.