Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1238. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. 218-222 AD. Æ 30mm (18.46 gm, 11h). Struck 218 AD. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SEP-TIM [TV]R COL, hexastyle temple with arched central bay set on four-tiered base; palm tree, altar, and murex shell before temple steps; within, statue of Tyche of Tyre standing right, erecting trophy, crowned by Nike on column. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC Phoenicia 393. Good VF, dark green-brown patina. ($200)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

Tyre lost its prized status as official Roman colony and "Metropolis" due to suspected sympathy towards the usurper Macrinus, this despite the fact that Tyre had supported Septimius Severus in the civil wars of 193-194.