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LOT 2747
Group of Eight [8] AE Coins of Byzantion, Thrace. 3rd century BC.
Various conditions. Fine to Very Fine.(75gr total.). [8]
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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