426, Lot: 394. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (24mm, 7.65 g, 12h). IMP CAES M[...]N-TONINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Nike standing left, leaning on column, holding murex shell and [palm frond]; palm tree to left. BMC 407 var. (obv. legend). Fine, green and red-brown patina, minor roughness, flatly struck in areas.

From the François Righetti Collection.