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LOT 2868
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 8 (AD 291/2).
ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CЄB, laureate (and cuirassed?) bust to right / Zeus standing to left, holding patera and sceptre, eagle standing to left; L H (date) across fields. Cf. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 76093; cf. Dattari (Savio) 5641; cf. Emmett 4087.8. Good Very Fine(7.43gr, 20mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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