442, Lot: 819. Estimate $150. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (29mm, 17.57 g, 1h). IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AV, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL TYR-O MET, eagle standing facing on palm branch, head left, wreath in beak; behind, standard inscribed LEG/ III/ GAL; murex shell in right field. Rouvier –; BMC 492. VF, earthen black patina, slight obverse die shift.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 37 (20 March 1996), lot 1149.