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LOT 3093
Augustus AE 21mm of Damascus, Seleucis and Pieria. 27 BC-AD 14.
Dated CY 283 (30/29 BC). Bare head to right / ΔAMAΣKHNΩN, Tyche seated to left on rock, extending right arm and holding cornucopia; river-god Chrysoroas at feet; L ΓΠ Σ (date, retrograde) to left; all within wreath. RPC I 4786; Rosenberger 8; DCA 500. Near Very Fine.(7.65gr, 21mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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