BUILD, VALERIAN I

Valerian I AD 253-260,
Æ 28 Phoenicia, Tyre
A. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AV, radiate and cuirassed bust right
R. COL TV-RO METR; “Dido building Carthage”; Dido standing left, holding cubit rule and scepter; on left, city-gate with builder at work and man digging below; star in field above, murex shell below
Cf. Rouvier 2501; BMC 470; fine, brown patina
28mm, 13.72 gr., die axis 0
Ex Kovacs XI, 1993, lot 196.

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