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Details
LOT 3529
Anonymous PB Tessera of Alexandreia, Egypt. Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD.
Bust of Nilus reclining to left, holding cornucopia and bust of Sarapis(?) / Serpent Agathodaemon coiled erect to right, wearing pschent, grain ear, poppies(?) and caduceus in its coils; L Є (date) in upper fields. Condition as seen. Extremely rare and apparently the only known.(3.09gr, 16mm, 10h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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