430, Lot: 283. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Æ (30mm, 16.26 g, 6h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Hercules standing left, placing hand on trophy and holding club and lion's skin; to right, Nike on column, crowning Hercules; murex shell to right of trophy. Cf. Triton XX, lot 469 (for rev.); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Fine, brown surfaces.