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LOT 2784
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. Very Fine. Apparently the only known example with these legends.(19.02gr, 35mm, 5h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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