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LOT 3462
Elagabalus AE 19mm of Adraa, Arabia. AD 218-222.
AV KЄCAP ANTWNINO, laureate head to right / ΤΥΧ • A-ΔΡΗΝW •, Tyche of the City(?) standing to right, holding cornucopia and long sceptre and placing foot on river god swimming to right. RPC VI Online 9236 corr.; Spijkerman 14 var. (legends). Very Fine.(5.62gr, 19mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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