146, Lot: 181. Estimate $100. Sold for $139. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 30mm (18.19 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL AVR PIA METRO SID, Car of Astarte: cult xoanon, flanked on either side by small figure, within ornate tetrastyle canopy, set on two-wheeled base; four palms emerging from roof of structure. BMC Phoenicia pg. 185, 248 var.; AUB 250ff var.; SNG Copenhagen 256 var. VF, brown patina with some light green encrustation, minor roughness.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.