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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Phoenicia| > RY89285
Elagabalus, 16 May 218 - 11 March 222 A.D., Tyre, Phoenicia
|Roman| |Phoenicia|, |Elagabalus,| |16| |May| |218| |-| |11| |March| |222| |A.D.,| |Tyre,| |Phoenicia|, After the legate of the Third Legion Gallica, quartered at Tyre, unsuccessfully attempted to usurp the throne, Elagabalus stripped the city of its colony status. Reverse legends on the city's coinage changed from SEP IM TVRP COLO to simply TVRIORVM. Colony status was returned by Severus Alexander.
RY89285. Bronze AE 26, Rouvier 2377; BMC Phoenicia p. 277, 410; Baramki AUB 246; Lindgren II 2379, aF, centered on a tight flan, earthen deposits, Phoenicia, Tyre (Lebanon) mint, weight 9.384g, maximum diameter 26.2mm, die axis 0o, 219 - 11 Mar 222 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES M AV ANTONINVS, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right; reverse TYRIORVM, Dido (founder and first queen of Carthage) standing left on deck of galley sailing right, short scepter in extended right hand, cornucopia in left hand, helmsman at stern steering with rudder to her left, sailor to her right, stern decorated with a shield and aphlaston, two murex shells in exergue; ex Agora auction 53 (5 April 2016), lot 99; rare; SOLD











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