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Electronic Auction 355  15 July 2015
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Lot 341

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 120 USD
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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (28mm, 19.85 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hercules standing left, sacrficing over altar and holding club and lion's skin; to left, two baetyls (Amrosial Rocks) from the bases of which water pours; murex shell to right. Rouvier –; BMC –. Fine, earthen brown patina, even roughness. Rare.

See BMC 427 for the same reverse type on a coin of Gordian III.
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