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Interesting Issue with Blundered Legends

LOT 2784

Sold for (Inc. bp): £338


Caracalla AE Medallion of Sardeis, Lydia. AD 198-217.

ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ ΟΥΕΤΤΗΝΙΑΝΟΣ, ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΣ KAI ΑΣΙΑΡΧΗΣ (Loukios Kornelios Vettenianos, strategos and asiarch). Struck AD 211-217. N A M AMATNYNЄINO (sic), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / KOP OYETTHNIAN M AP NYONVS VIΓΑΟΥ Κ ΜΟ (sic) around, XPY-CANΘIN[A C]APΔIA-NΩN [...blundered insciption] in six lines within laurel wreath. For another example with similar legends cf. GRPC 523. 19.02gr, 35mm, 5h.

Very Fine. Apparently the only known example with these legends.

PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.

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