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LOT 3302
Augustus AR Denarius. 16 BC. Rome mint. C. Antistius Vetus, moneyer.
[C ANTISTIVS] VETVS III VIR, draped bust of Venus to right, wearing stephane / COS [I]MP CAESAR • AVGV XI in three lines, simpulum and lituus above; tripod and patera below. RIC I 367; BMCRE 98-99; RSC 348. Near Very Fine. Bankers' marks on both sides.(3.77gr, 17mm, 11h.).
Provenance
Found Gloucestershire, UK.
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