148, Lot: 280. Estimate $150. Sold for $156. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 26mm (10.21 g). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Marsyas, holding wineskin over shoulder, standing right on low basis, within structure consisting of two decorated distyle wings and a central arch; above central arch, figure right on lion. AUB 106; BMC Phoenicia pg. 81, 192; SNG Copenhagen -. EF, brownish-green patina, typical light roughness.

From the Alexandre de Barros Collection; Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXV (24 March 1993), lot 899.