421, Lot: 465. Estimate $100. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (2526mm, 12.86 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Sacred olive tree set on ground line; on either side, baetyls inscribed AMB/POCIЄ and ΠAI/TPЄ; in exergue, hound of Hercules right and murex. Rouvier 2391; BMC 7 var. (murex and hound switched). Near VF, earthen green surfaces. Rare.