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LOT 3042
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 284-305.
Dated RY 8 (AD 291/2). ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CЄB, laureate head to right / Zeus standing to left, holding patera and sceptre, eagle standing to left; L H (date) across fields. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 76093; Dattari (Savio) 5641; Emmett 4087. Very Fine.(6.41gr, 20mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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