The Building of Carthage

427, Lot: 384. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (27mm, 12.07 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The building of Carthage: Dido standing left, holding a ruler and scepter, surveying construction; mason above gate, worker with pick-axe digging before gate; [murex shell] in upper central field, palm tree to right of Dido. Rouvier 2375; BMC 409. Fine, earthen green patina.