Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA, Berytus. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (29mm, 18.38 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Gateway with central arch and four columns; above, figure riding lion right; below, statue of Marsyas right, with wine-skin over shoulder. Sawaya – (D338/R717 [unlisted die combination]); Rouvier 572; BMC 194. Choice EF, brown surfaces.


From the Collection of a Director. Ex Sternberg [VI] (25 November 1976), lot 564.