148, Lot: 284. Estimate $100. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 26mm (11.54 g). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Bust of Astarte right, within portable tetrastyle, arched shrine; murex shell in exergue; two carrying projecting diagonally from the front base. BMC Phoenicia pg. 292, 478; SNG Copenhagen -; AUB -; Lindgren III 1480 (this coin). VF, grayish-green patina.
From the Alexandre de Barros Collection; Ex Henry Lindgren Collection, 1480.