Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. Æ (29mm, 21.34 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Sacrifice to Tyche-Astarte: Tyche-Astarte seated left, holding cornucopia and open wreath(?); before her, Marsyas(?) standing right; in exergue, four figures of Cities (Tyche), wearing turreted crowns; the outer two raising their hands toward Tyche-Astarte; one raising a wreath, and the last pouring a libation on an altar. Cf. BMC 433 (Philip I); cf. AUB 266 (Philip I); Lindgren & Kovacs 2388. Fine, green and brown patina, some roughness. Rare reverse type.

Ex Vecchi 7 (6 October 1997), lot 1567.