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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 8069814, member: 56859&quot;]Nice Phoenician, David et al!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have anything Phoenician from the Flavian era but here are a range of others from Roman times:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_4d8ffd4c7692454fbdaae532a808a53a.jpg_srb_p_850_434_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Arados. Trajan</b></p><p>CY 375 (CE 116/7)</p><p>Æ22, 9.65 g</p><p>Obv: draped bust of Astarte-Europa right; before, small laureate and draped bust of Trajan</p><p>Rev: bull charging left</p><p>Reference: SNG Copenhagen 81; BMC 374</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/berytoselagabalusdido1-jpg.362256/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Tyre. Elagabalus</b></p><p>CE 218-222</p><p>AE29, 13.4 gm</p><p>Obv: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev: Dido building Carthage; she stands to front before the arched gate of the city, looking left, holding a rule and transverse sceptre; above the gate, a mason at work, [below, a man digging with pick]; murex shell in upper field, palm tree to right</p><p>Ref: Rouvier 2375; BMC 409; AUB 245; Price &amp; Trell 748</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/maesatyreae-rt-jpg.499974/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Tyre. Julia Maesa</b></p><p>CE 218-224/5</p><p>AE 27, 12.71g (11h)</p><p>Obv: IVLIA MAE - SA AV[G] Draped bust right, wearing stephane</p><p>Rev: TVRIORVM Dido standing left on deck of galley sailing right, extending right hand and holding cornucopia in left; to left, sailor throwing sack of sand overboard; to right, sailor extending right hand and holding curved staff in left; stern decorated with a shield and aphlaston, [two murex shells] in exergue</p><p>Ref: CNG e320, 12 Feb. 2014, lot 323 (same dies). Rouvier 2408</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/phoenicia-tyre-giii-dido-v2-jpg.408317/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Tyre. Gordian III</b></p><p>CE 238-244</p><p>Æ trichalkon; 29mm, 18.10 g, 12h</p><p>Obv: laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev: Dido standing left, holding transverse rule; to left, arched gate of Carthage on which mason sits and constructs; murex shell above; in exergue, man digging right with pick</p><p>Ref: Rouvier 2430; AUB –; BMC –. Fine, earthen patina. Very rare.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/phoenicia-tyre-valeriani-dido-jpg.363150/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Tyre. Valerian I (CE 253-260)</b></p><p>Æ28.5 mm, 12.2 gm</p><p>Obv: IMP CP LIC VALERIANVS AVG; radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev: COL TVRO METRO; the building of Carthage: Dido standing left, holding cubit ruler and scepter, surveying construction; mason above gate, worker with pick-axe digging before gate, murex shell to lower right</p><p>Ref: Rouvier 2501; BMC 470; cf Price &amp; Trell 748[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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