BMC 34
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| BMC 2 | Sidon, Phoenicia. Circa 435-420 BC. AR Half Shekel. Galley sailing left; two waves below / King of Persia standing right, drawing bow; incuse head of Bes to left, incuse head of goat to right; all within incuse square. Betlyon 4, SNG Copenhagen 188-189. | Text | Image |
| BMC 8 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AR Double Shekel. Uncertain King, 460-450 BC. Phoenician war-galley left at the base of a city wall surmounted by five battlemented towers; two lions salient addorsed below / Persian King, wearing tiara and candys, raising right hand, standing left in horse-drawn chariot driven by charioteer. BMC 4-8; Rouvier 1082-1084; cf Sear 5934. | Text | Image |
| BMC 9 | Sidon, Phoenicia, Uncertain king AR Half Shekel. 405-395 BC. Galley left before four city towers, two lions addorsed below; Phoenician letter Beth above / King of Persia standing right, slaying lion standing on its hind legs before him. Rouvier 1092; Betlyon 14. | Text | Image |
| BMC 14 | Phoenicia AR 1/16th Shekel. Abdeshmun, ca 410-400 BCs. War-galley to left before battlemented city wall with three towers, two lions back to back in exergue / King of Persia standing right, drawing bow; incuse head of Bes to left, incuse head of goat to right. Betlyon 9. | Text | Image |
| BMC 17 | Sidon, Phoenicia. AR Tetrashekel. Baalshallim II or Bodashtart. Circa 386-372 BC. War galley to left over waves, Phoenician "B" above / King of Persia left in a quadriga of pacing horses, Egyptian figure wearing an Egyptian crown and holding a sceptre with an animal's head, walking left behind the chariot. BMC 17-24; Sear 5934; Betlyon 16. | Text | Image | Text | Image | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| BMC 17ff | Sidon, Phoenicia. AR Tetrashekel. Baalshallim II or Bodashtart. Circa 386-372 BC. War galley to left over waves, Phoenician "B" above / King of Persia left in a quadriga of pacing horses, Egyptian figure wearing an Egyptian crown and holding a sceptre with an animal's head, walking left behind the chariot. BMC 17-24; Sear 5934; Betlyon 16. | Text | Image |
| BMC 25 | Sidon, Phoenicia, Baalshallim II. Circa 407/2-372/68 BC. AR Double Shekel. Dated RY 3[2-4] (circa 373-368 BC). War galley travelling left over waves; bet above / King of Persia and driver in chariot left; Baalshallim following behind, date above. Betlyon 18 corr. | Text | Image |
| BMC 26cf | Sidon, Phoenicia. Time of King Bodashtart. Circa 4th Century BC. AR Half Shekel . War galley left, waves below / Bearded deity in horse-drawn cart left. | Text | Image |
| BMC 26ff | Sidon, Phoenicia. Time of King Bodashtart. Circa 4th Century BC. AR Half Shekel . War galley left, waves below / Bearded deity in horse-drawn cart left. | Text | Image |
| BMC 29 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AR tetrashekel, King Strato I (Abdashtart), 370-358 BC. 25.59 g. War-galley with oars and shields over four lines of waves. III above. / King standing left in a quadriga of pacing horses, an Egyptian figure wearing an Egyptian crown walking left behind the cart, holding a sceptre with an animal's head and a one-handled vase with flowers. "90" above. BMC 29; Sear 5937. | Text | Image |
| BMC 34 | Sidon, Phoenicia. 372-358 BC. AR Sixteenth Shekel, 0.73 g. War-galley left with oars and shields over waves. III above. / King standing right, about to slay a lion which is standing left on its back legs. "90" ("AB") upwards between them. BMC 34. | Text | Image |
| BMC 35 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AR sixteenth shekel, Abdashtart I. 365-352 BC. 0.75 g. War-galley left with oars and shields over waves. III` above. / King standing right, about to slay a lion which is standing left on its back legs. "90" ("AB") upwards between them. BMC 35; Sear 5940; Elayi, Sidon, 1420. | Text | Image |
| BMC 36 | Sidon, Sidon, Phoenicia. AR 1/16 Shekel, Abdashtart I. Ca 372-361 BC. 10mm, 0.68 g. Phoenician 'B' above galley left, two waves below / King standing right, slaying lion, which he holds by the mane; O in lower centre. Betlyon 27; BMC 36. | Text | Image |
| BMC 46 | Sidon, Phoenicia AE15. War galley left / King of Persia in cart left. | Text | Image |
| BMC 56 | Sidon, AE15. War galley travelling left over two lines of waves, III III III (=regnal year 9) above / Bearded deity in kneeling-running attitude right, holding spear and bow. BMC (Phoenicia) 56; Sear Greece 5956 | Text | Image |
| BMC 60 | Sidon, Phoenicia. 'Abd'ashtart I. 372-358 BC. AE 13mm. Year 11 (361/360 BC). Galley to left; date above / Head of 'Abd'ashtart right. Betlyon 30. | Text | Image |
| BMC 67 | Sidon, Phoenicia, 'Abd'ashtart II AR Eighth Shekel. War galley left / Persian king standing right, battling lion standing left on hind legs, OO between them, all in shallow incuse square. Betlyon 34; BMC 67. | Text | Image |
| BMC 82 | Sidon, Mazaios. AR Tetrashekel. War galley left / King in biga left. | Text | Image |
| BMC 84 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AR Sixteenth Shekel. 355-340 BC. Sidonian war galley left with oars, legend above / Persian King standing right, slaying lion standing on hind legs before him; O between them. Sear Greek 5948; BMC 84; McClean 9492. | Text | Image |
| BMC 91 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AE13, ca 290-250 BC. 1.13 g. Turreted head of Tyche right, Z behind neck. / Phoenician legend around rudder. BMC 91; SNG Cop 210; type Sear 5958. | Text | Image |
| BMC 117 | Sidon. 43/44 AD. AR Half Shekel. Turreted bust of Tyche right / Eagle standing left, palm over far shoulder; date and letters in fields. Prieur 1352; RPC I 4561. | Text | Image |
| BMC 130ff | Sidon, Phoenicia. AE21. Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right / Astarte standing left on galley, tiller in right hand, sceptre in left, date in left field. | Text | Image |
| BMC 132 | Sidon, Phoenicia, 83-82 BC. 3.447g, 19.8mm. Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right / Astarte standing left on galley, tiller in right hand, sceptre in left, date L QK in left field, ΣIΔΩNIΩN and Phoenician script (l ts d n m) below. BMC 132. | Text | Image |
| BMC 137 | Sidon, Phoenicia AE 21mm. Year 34 (78-77 BC). Jugate busts of Tyche, veiled and turreted, and Demos right (Waser states that the male head cannot be that of Zeus, as the head, in the background, takes a minor position and there is no trace of laurels or taenia)./ ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ, Phoenician galley sailing left; date L ΔΛ above, Phoenician inscription "of the Sidonians" below. SNG Cop 221, Lindgren 2324. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| BMC 143 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AE24, dated year 40, 71-70 BC. 6.94 g. Laureate head of Zeus right. / ΣIΔONΩN, Europa seated facing on bull charging left, date L-M across upper fields. BMC 143; Sear 5966 corr.; SNG Cop 225. | Text | Image |
| BMC 155 | Sidon, Phoenicia AE19. 64 BC to 117 AD. Head of young Dionysus left, wreathed with ivy / cista mystica, ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ below, year above (Sidon's local era beginning 112-111 BC) all within ivy wreath. | Text | Image |
| BMC 156 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AE20, dated year 225, AD 116-117. 6.97 g. Head of Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy. / Small cista mystica above ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ, date LΣKZ (Z is retrograde) above. BMC 156; type Sear 5967. | Text | Image |
| BMC 167 | Sidon, Phoenicia. Civic Issue. AE 21mm. Struck Year 117 (8/9AD). Tetrastyle temple on high podium; single columns flanking / Veiled Europa riding bull left. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| BMC 171 | Sidon, Phoenicia, dated AD 44-45. AE15, 3.80 gr. Turreted bust of Tyche right, A, digamma and aphlaston before head / ENP (date) ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ above war galley left, Phoenician legend below. BMC 171. | Text | Image |
| BMC 171cf | Sidon, Phoenicia AE15. ca 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD. Turreted bust of Tyche right / Galley left. | Text | Image |
| BMC 179 | Sidon, Phoenicia AE15. Turreted bust of Tyche right, star in crescent before / Galley left. | Text | Image |
| BMC 193 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AE23, 80-87 AD. Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right / ΣIΔΩN ΘEAΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AΣOYΛOY KAI NAYAΡCIΔOΣ in six lines above and below galley left, stem terminating forward in volute, aphlaston at stern. BMC Phoenicia, 193. | Text | Image |
| BMC 197 | Sidon, Phoenica, AE22. AD 116-117. Veiled and turreted head of Tyche right, aplustre behind head / ΣIΔΩNOΣ IEΡAΣ, Cart of Astarte on two wheels, containing baetyl beneath a canopy. Date ZKS below. BMC 197; SNG Cop 247. | Text | Image |
| Betlyon_- | Sidon, Phoenicia. Baalshallim II. Circa 386-372 BC. AR Double Shekel (28.21 gm). Regnal year 15. War-galley to left over waves, Phoenician "B" above / King of Persia in chariot with driver, Egyptian attendant behind; date above. BMC -, Betlyon -. | Text | Image |
| Betlyon 5cf | Sidon, Phoenicia. Ba'lsallim I or II, ca 420-410 BC or later. AR 1/64 Shekel (0.29 gm). Galley left over waves; Phoenician letter B above / Persian king, in crown, holding bow in outstretched left hand and spear or arrow (?) in right, resting on shoulder. BMC -. | Text | Image |
| Betlyon 9 | Sidon, Phoenicia AR 1/16 shekel. ca 410-400 BC. Galley left before city wall / Persian king standing right, drawing bow, head of goat to right. | Text | Image |
| Betlyon 16 | Sidon, Phoenicia, Ba'lshallim II AR Dishekel. Galley left; Phoenician 'B' above / Chariot with driver and Persian king left, Egyptian attendant behind. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| Betlyon 24 | Sidon, Phoenicia, 'Abd'ashtart I AR Sixteenth Shekel. ca 384-370 BC. War galley moving left over waves, dated II above / Phoenician letters (ayin bet) between legs of king ritually killing a lion, shallow incuse square. BMC 34v, SNG Cop 196. | Text | Image |
| Betlyon 25 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AR Eighth shekel. Abd Astart I, c410-400 BC, War-galley to left / King of Persia slaying lion standing before him, O between them; all in incuse square. | Text | Image |
| Betlyon 38 | Sidon, Phoenicia AR Sixteenth shekel. ca 342-332 BC. Galley left / Persian king standing right, about to slay erect lion whose mane he seizes; Phoenician letters between. | Text | Image |
| LeRider 23-24 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AE18, civic issue, 2nd c. BC. Turreted head of Tyche right, (palm branch behind head, off flan) / ΣIΔΩNIΩN, Tyche, head bare, seated left on a transversely placed rudder, holding the tiller in her right hand and resting left hand on the shaft. Phoenician date to left. LeRider 23-24 in Rev.Num 1959; type Paris Y28359.21. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1293 | Phoenicia Sidon, 121-114 BC, AE 25 dichalkis. Turreted head of Tyche right (usually with EIP or EYI behind head) / Year above, ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ above, IEΡAΣ KAI AZYΛOY KAI NAY AΡCIΔOΣ beneath galley with rounded volute and aplustre on the poop deck. Rouvier 1293; Mionnet V, 277. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1331 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AE21, dated year 5. 107-106 BC. 9.69 g. Turreted head of Tyche right, B monogram behind neck. / ΣIΔONIΩN, galley left, date LE above, Phoenician script below. Rouvier 1331; Hoover HGC 291; BMC -. Type Sear 5962. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1345 | Sidon, Phoenicia, AE14, Veiled and turreted bust of Tyche right, countermarked "X" for Legio X / Prow left, Phoenician script above and date below. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1392 | Time of Trajan, AE24, Sidon, Civic Issue. Turreted, draped bust of Tyche right / ΣIΔONΩN ΘEAΣ to left and right, Cart of Astarte on wheels, containing sacred baetyl, conceivably a meteorite, date below. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1414 | AE17 of Sidon, Phoenicia. 80-45 BC. 8.3gm. Jugate busts of Tyche, diademed and turreted and Zeus right / ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ, Galley rowing left, apluste on the deck, date LQM below (year 49). Rouvier 1414. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1419 | Sidon, Phoenicia AE22. Dated Year 35 (77-76 BC). Jugate busts of Tyche, veiled and turreted, and Zeus or Demos right, HA monogram behind head of Tyche. / ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ, Phoenician galley sailing left, date L EΛ above, Phoenician inscription "of the Sidonians" below. Rouvier 1419; Babelon Perses 1659; Mionnet V, 240. BMC 140 var (different monogram). | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1436 | Sidon, Phoenicia. 44-117 AD. 6.96g; 20mm. Head of young Dionysus right, wreathed with ivy / Cista mystica, ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ below, year LE KΣ above (year 225 of the local era), all within ivy wreath. Rouvier 1436. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 199 | Sidon, Phoenicia: AR 1/8 shekel. ca. 355-340 BC. Bearded deity about to slay lion / War galley left. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 247 | Sidon, Phoenicia. Year 227 (116-117 AD). AE 24mm. Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right; aphlaston behind, star before / ΣIΔΩNOΣ IEΡAΣ, car of Astarte, containing baetyl; date ZKΣ below. | Text | Image |
| Triton II 498 | Sidon, AR double shekel, Baalshallim II | Text | Image |
| eighth | Sidon, Phoencia, AR Eighth shekel, (0.58g) Abdeshmun, c. 410-400 BC, War-galley to left. / King of Persia slaying lion standing before him, O between them; all in incuse square. | Text | Image |
| RPC 4106 | Augustus AE 23mm of an uncertain Syrian mint. AVGVST TR POT, laureate head right / ΛT CA, two lines within laurel wreath. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| RPC 4604 | Augustus, AE of Sidon, Phoenicia. 9.91 g. Laureate head left, crescent to left, all within wreath / ΣIΔΩN[OC IEΡAΣ] Λ [BΡ] beneath Europa with billowing veil, riding bull right. RPC 4604. BMC 205. | Text | Image |
| RPC 4608 | Augustus, AE21 of Sidon, Phoenicia. Year 117 (AD 6-7). Laureate head right / Car on two wheels, date in centre field. | Text | Image |
| RPC 4609 | Augustus AE 8 Chalkoi of Sidon, Phoenicia. Bare head right; HX (denomination) behind / Veiled Europa riding left on bull. | Text | Image |
| RPC 4612 | Caligula AE21 of Sidon, Phoenicia. AD 37-41. 11.66 g. Dated Year 148, AD 37-38. No legend, laureate head right, star in lower right field. / ΣIΔΩNOΣ L HMP, Europa, with veil inflated over her head, riding bull galloping left. RPC 4612; BMC 208; Rouvier 1457–1458; Babelon Perses 1714. | Text | Image |
| BMC 210 | Claudius AE25 of Sidon, Phoenicia. Laureate head of Claudius left / ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ, Λ ..NΡ, Europa seated on bull right holding a horn and her inflated veil. BMC 210; RPC 4613; Rouvier 1459. | Text | Image |
| RPC 4616 | Nero, AE23 of Sidon, Phoenicia. AD 54-68. 10.85 g. Dated local year 166, AD 55-56. No legend, laureate head right, star to right. / ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ below, Europa sitting front, looking right, holding billowing veil and bull’s horn, on bull galloping right. Date L-CEΡ across upper fields. RPC I 4616; BMC 212; Chandon 855. | Text | Image |
| RPC 4618 | Nero AE 23mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. Laureate head left; lituus before / ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ, Λ EOΡ, Veiled Europa riding right on bull. RPC 4618; Rouvier 1465–1466; BMC 215. | Text | Image |
| RPC 2055 | Vespasian AE16 of Sidon, Phoenicia. AD 69-79. Dated local year 188 (AD 77-78). Turreted and draped bust of Tyche right; before, star within crescent / ΣIΔΩNΩS ΘEAΣ Aς, Galley left, HΠΡ (date) above. RPC II 2055; Rouvier 1353; Paris 1731; Hunter 29. | Text | Image |
| BMC 218-223 | Trajan, AE23 of Sidon, Phoenicia. AD 98-117. Dated local year 227, AD 116-117. 9.64 g. AYTO NEΡ TΡAIANΩ KAI, laureate head right, slight drapery on left shoulder. / ΣIΔΩNOΣ NAYAΡXIΔOΣ in two lines to right, date L ZKΣ to left, Cadmus walking left on prow, head right, pointing forward with right hand. BMC 218-223; RPC III 3866; Rouvier 1471; SNG Hunterian 3343; SNG Cop 252; SNG Leake 2404-2405. | Text | Image |
| SNG Copenhagen 253 | Hadrian AE 24mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. Struck AD 117-118. AYTO TΡAI KAI AΔΡIANΩ CE, laureate head right / ΣIΔΩN-OΣ ΘEAΣ, HKΣ in ex, cart of Astarte on two wheels, containing baetyl. BMC 226. | Text | Image |
| SNG Copenhagen 254 | Hadrian AE 23mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. Struck year 226 (AD 117-118). AYTO TΡAI KAI AΔΡIAN.., laureate head right / Date ZKΣ above right, ΣIΔΩNOΣ ΘEAΣ beneath Europa, veiled, seated facing on bull, looking right, holding his horn with left hand, and her inflated veil with her right hand. BMC 225; SNG Copenhagen 254. | Text | Image |
| Bellinger 288 | Caracalla AR Tetradrachm of Sidon, Phoenicia. AYT KAI ANTΩNINOC CE, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ΔHMAΡX EΞ YΠATOC Δ, eagle standing facing, head left, wreath in beak; between legs, Europa on bull right. Prieur 1357. | Text | Image |
| Bellinger 291 | Caracalla AR Tetradrachm of Sidon, Phoenicia. AYT KAI M ANTΩNINOC CE, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ΔHMAΡX EΞ YΠATOC Δ, eagle standing facing, head left, wreath in beak, Cart of Astarte between legs. | Text | Obv-Rev |
| Bellinger 293 | Caracalla AR Tetradrachm of Sidon, Phoenicia. AYT KAI ANTΩNINOC CE, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / ΔHMAΡX EΞ YΠATOC Δ, eagle standing facing, head left, wreath in beak; between legs, Astarte in carriage. Prieur 1362. | Text | Image |
| Prieur 1363 | Caracalla Bi. Tetradrachm of Sidon, Phoenicia. 27 mm, 12.74 g. AYT KAI ANTωNINOC CE, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from the back. / ΔHMAΡX EΞ YΠATOC T Δ, eagle standing right, head and tail left, carriage of Astarte between legs. Prieur 1363; Bellinger 294. | Text | Image |
| Berlin 28469 | Elagabalus, AE33 of Sidon, Phoenicia. 21.32 g. M AVR ANTONI, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / AVR PIA SIDON METROP around, COLONI below, priest ploughing right with two oxen, in the background a vexillum inscribed LEG III PAR. Berlin 28469 otherwise unpublished; Rouvier 1508 var (legends). | Text | Image |
| BMC 233 | Elagabalus AE25 of Sidon, Phoenicia. IM C M A ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head right. / A-P SID CO METRO, Europa on bull galloping right, veil billowing above. BMC 233. | Text | Image |
| BMC 236 | Elagabalus AE 24mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Kadmos running left on prow. BMC 236; SNG Cop 260. | Text | Image |
| BMC 237v | Elagabalus AE24 of Sidon, Phoenicia. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / SID COL METRO above, AVR PIA in field, Kadmos advancing left, head right, on prow. | Text | Image |
| BMC 243v | Elagabalus AE28 of Sidon, Phoenicia. IMP C M AVR ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL AVR PIA METR SIDON, tetrastyle Temple of Astarte, who is standing facing, holding sceptre and being crowned by Nike on column to right, Marsyas at foot left. | Text | Image |
| BMC 247 | Elagabalus, AE29 of Sidon, Phoenicia. IM C M AV ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / COL AVG PIA MHTRO SID, Car of Astarte on two wheels, with four columns supporting the roof above which emerge two palm branches; a round baetyl on a draped base within the cart with two small figures to left and right. BMC 247. | Text | Image |
| BMC 255v | Sidon, Phoenicia. Elagabalus AE 26. IM C M AV ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL AVR PIA METRO, SID below, Car of Astarte on two wheels, four columns supporting roof, above which emerge four palm-branches, a round baetyl on draped base within, inverted crescent above. | Text | Image | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| BMC 263 | Sidon, Phoenicia. Elagabalus. 218-222 AD. AE 29mm. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL AVR PIA METR SIDON, Dido, princess of Tyre, seated left in attitude of Pudicitia, hand raising veil from face. | Text | Image |
| BMC 274cf | Elagabalus AE 30mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. IMP CAESAR M AV ANTONINV, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / AVR PIA SIDON COL MET, AETER BFI in exergue, two-handled modius containing four grain ears. | Text | Image |
| BMC 309cf | Sidon, Phoenicia. Elagabalus. A.D. 218-222 AD. AE 25. The ship Argo left, with steersman, the Dioscuri, rowers, shield and ladder; car of Astarte above. | Text | Image |
| DL 25519 | Elagabalus, AE28 of Sidon, Phoenicia. IMP CAESAR M A ANTONIN, Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. / COL AVR PIA METRO SID, Baetyl or amphora, with winged handles and on a dais with two sphinxes to left and right. Unpublished reverse type. Rouvier 1518-1522 var (modius on reverse). Collectors number DL25519. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1509 | Elagabalus AE30 of Sidon, Phoenicia. IMP CAESAR M AV ANTONINVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / AVG PIA SID COL METR, Priest plowing right with pair of oxen, standard above inscribed L III GAL in two lines. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1514 | Elagabalus AE28 of Sidon, Phoenicia. IMP C M AVR ANTONINVS AVG, laureate bust right / COL AVR PIA METRO SID, prize-table, garlanded, with two price-urns, each decorated with palm, between them staff composed by cart of Astarte, Sidon set on palm tree; ; left below table five balls piled into a pyramid and a voting urn. IE PER ISE OECVM in exergue. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1556 | Elagabalus, AE29 of Sidon. 13.7g. IMP C AVREL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG P G B MAX, laureate head right. / AETERNVM BENEFICIVM, modius with two handles, containing four corn-ears. Rouvier 1556 ("one could also place it under Caracalla"); Babelon Perses 1795 corr (PGB read as PON); Mionnet V, 333. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 255 | Elagabalus AE30 of Sidon, Phoenicia. IMP CAESAR M AV ANTONINVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / AVR PIA SID COL MET, two-wheeled cult cart of Astarte right, with roof on four columns, two palms emerging from it; holy stone (baetyl) from Sidon within. | Text | Image |
| SNG Rhighetti 2302 | Annia Faustina AE 19mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. ANNIA FAVSTINA, Draped bust right / COL AVR PIA METRO, SID below, Asklepios standing left, leaning on serpent staff and holding wand. SNG Fitz. 6064; SNG Righetti 2302. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1572 | Annia Faustina AE 28mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. ANNIA FAVSTINA, diademed, draped bust right, crescent behind shoulders / COL AVR-PIA METRO, cart of Astarte. Rouvier 1572: Babelon 1831. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1572var | Annia Faustina AE 26mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. ANNIA FAVSTINA, diademed, draped bust right / COL AVR-PIA METRO, cart of Astarte. Rouvier 1572 var (crescent on obv.) | Text | Image |
| BMC 296 | Julia Maesa, AE23 of Sidon, Phoenicia. 8.47 gr. IVL MAESA AVG, draped bust right / COL AV PIA MET, Kadmos running left on prow, looking right, holding sheathed sword in left hand and raising right hand. Rouvier 1591 corr. (reverse description); BMC 296. | Text | Image |
| BMC 300 | Julia Maesa AE20 of Sidon. IVL MAESA AVG, draped bust right / Car of Astarte containing sacred baetyl, perhaps a meteorite, below canopy. SNG Cop. 264. | Text | Image |
| BMC 300 | Julia Maesa AE 30mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust right / COL AVR PIA METR SIDON, car of Astarte with four branches protruding from roof. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1589 | Julia Maesa, AE23 of Sidon, Phoenicia. AD 218-224. IOVL MAICA AVG, draped bust right / COL AVR PIA METR SIDO, Marsyas standing right within arched tetrastyle temple, right hand raised, wineskin over shoulder. Paris E2933; Rouvier 1589; Bernhart -. | Text | Image |
| BMC 290 | Julia Paula, AE29 of Sidon, Phoenicia. AD 219-220. 13.77 g. IVLIA PAVLA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane. / COL AVR PIA METR SIDON, tetrastyle temple with Astarte standing front within, holding sceptre and being crowned by Nike on column to right, Marsyas at foot left. BMC 290; Weber 4262; Rouvier 1565; Babelon Perses 1827; Mionnet V, 348. | Text | Image |
| BMC 316cf | Severus Alexander AE24 of Sidon, Phoenicia. IMP M AVP SEVERVS ALEXANDER, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL AVR PIA METR SIDON, Athena standing right about to hurl spear at a lion to right, cart of Astarte in upper right. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1602 | Severus Alexander, AE26 of Sidon, Phoenicia. AD 222–235. 12.8 g. M AVR ALEXANDRVS CAES, bare-headed, cuirassed bust right. / COL AVR PIA METRO SIDO, Dido, naked to waist, seated left, holding sceptre and raising right hand. Symbol (mason on city gate?) at foot left. Rouvier 1602. | Text | Image |
| Rouvier 1612 | Severus Alexander AE25 of Side, Phoenicia. 4 Assaria, AD 222-235. 9.89 g. IMR (sic) CAE M AVR SEV ALEXANDER, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL AVR PIA MET SID, Kybele sitting left on lion walking right, small symbol of the cart of Atargatis at upper right. Rouvier 1612; Babelon Perses 1852; Paris E2919. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 268 | Severus Alexander 222-235 AD. AE of Sidon, Phoenicia. 6,74g. IMR (sic) CAE M A (...), laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / COL AVR PIA METRO / SID, Cult carriage of Astarte with Baitylos right. SNG Cop 268, BMC 318-319. | Text | Image |
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