★ Dido Building Carthage ★

Valerian I Æ 28mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 253-260. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AV, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL TVRO METR, the building of Carthage: Dido standing facing, head to left, holding rule and transverse sceptre and surveying construction by mason above gate to left and worker with pick-axe digging to lower left; murex shell in lower right field. Rouvier 2501; BMC 470. 14.24g, 28mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine. Very Rare, and depicting a wonderful mythological scene.

Ex F. Sternberg AG, Auction VI, 25 November 1976, lot 733;
Old collector's ticket included.