[Kenneth W. Dorney - Ancient Greek & Roman ]
August 03, 1999 

Lot: 53   Elagabalus. Ancient. AE30,
Phoenicia, Sidon, 17.7 grams. 218-222 AD.

Description corrected

Rx: AVG PIA SID COL METR, Priest ploughing
right, standard behind inscribed LIII GAL (Legio III Gallia). 

Rouvier 1509.
("Numismatique des villes de la Phénicie", p. 264 
and plate IX, 15.)

(described as "Apparently unpublished and very rare"
in error. )

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