Details
LOT 3218
Augustus AE 21mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. 27 BC-AD 14.
CAESAR, laureate head to right / Dolphin entwined around trident; all within wreath. RPC I, 4536; Rouvier 486; Sawaya 136-146. Near Very Fine. Very rare.(8.50gr, 21mm, 5h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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