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PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ (27mm, 13.35 g, 11h). Laureate and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front, with gorgoneion on breastplate / Pygmalion advancing left, chlamys over arm, holding long scepter; to right, four stags running right; star in field above, murex shell below horses. RPC VI Online 8637; BMC 408. Earthen brown patina, light roughness. Near VF. Very rare.
Pygmalion was king of Tyre and father of Dido, founder of Carthage. Coins with his likeness, all with a similar scene as on this coin, were struck from Elagabalus to Trebonianus Gallus, all are very rare.
Pygmalion was king of Tyre and father of Dido, founder of Carthage. Coins with his likeness, all with a similar scene as on this coin, were struck from Elagabalus to Trebonianus Gallus, all are very rare.