Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA. Tyre. Valerian I, 253-260. Tetrassarion (Orichalcum, 27 mm, 15.31 g, 7 h). IM[P C P LIC VALE]RIANVS AV Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Valerian I to right. Rev. COL TVRO METRO - IЄPI/A AM/BPOCI/ωN ΠЄ/TPωN The nymph Europa standing front, head turned slightly to left, holding rock in her hands; at feet to left, protome of bull arising right; to right, murex shell. BMC -. Cf. RPC IX 1996 = Triton XVI (2013), 740 (Trebonianus Gallus). Extremely rare and with a very interesting reverse. Somewhat rough, otherwise, about very fine.


This issue was struck to commemorate the sacred games of the famous floating Ambrosial Rocks, on which Herakles ordered the Phoenicians to found Tyre after he fixed them upon immovable foundations.