146, Lot: 182. Estimate $150. Sold for $206. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus. Augusta, AD 218-222. Æ 25mm (15.38 g). Draped 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 -; AUB -; SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, brown patina. Very rare.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.