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LOT 3091
Elagabalus AE 22mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 218-222.
[IMP C M] AVR • ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head to right; slight drapery on far shoulder / Incuse of obverse. Cf. RPC VI, 8178 (temporary). Near Very Fine. Obverse brockage.(7.39gr, 22mm.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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