Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 743. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ 29mm (19.47 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Facing bust of Astarte; aquila and cornucopia on either side; all within tetrastyle temple; pellet in pediment; in exergue, lion advancing right. AUB 122 var. (bust type); SNG Copenhagen 123. VF, black-green patina with orange highlights.

From the Alexandre de Barros Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 6 (6 October 2000), lot 422.