★ RR issue of Caesarea ad Libanon ★

Phoenicia. Caesarea ad Libanon. Severus Alexander. As Caesar AD 222.
Bronze Æ

25mm., 6,31g.

AVR • ALEZANΔROS CAISAR, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL CESA-RIA LIB around, ITVR below, pontiff driving yoke of oxen left, behind, vexillum inscribed.

nearly very fine

Cf. J. Rouvier, Numismatique des villes de la Phénicie, JIAN 4, 1901, p.63, 740; cf. Lindgren Coll. 2289; cf. SNG Switzerland II (Righetti) 2268. From The Tareq Hani collection

This is a rarely seen specimen and a marvellous example of this very rare type