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LOT 2865
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 5 (AD 288/9).
[...]Λ ΔIOKΛHTIANOC [...], laureate and cuirassed(?) bust to right / Eusebia standing facing, head to left, sprinkling incense over altar on left and holding box; L Є (date) across field. Cf. RPC X Unassigned ID 76026. Good Fine.(7.11gr, 19mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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