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Details
LOT 3269
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 2 (AD 285/6).
A K Γ OYAΛ ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CЄB, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / Zeus standing facing, head to left, holding patera and sceptre; L B (date) to right; at feet, eagle standing to left, head to right. Köln 3222; Dattari (Savio) 5774; K&G 119.24; Emmett 4087.2. Near Very Fine.(7,59gr, 20mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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