148, Lot: 279. Estimate $100. Sold for $82. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 25mm (11.99 g). Laureate head right / Astarte standing facing within tetrastyle temple, on right Nike stands on a short column crowning Astarte, ladder at an angle leading up to temple. BMC Phoenicia pg. 74, 151; SNG Copenhagen 110 var.; AUB 95. VF, black patina.

From the Alexandre de Barros Collection; Ex Freeman & Sear 6 (6 October 2000), lot 398.