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LOT 3220
Elagabalus AE 29mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 218-222.
IMP CAES M AV ANTONINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right; c/m: bust or Herakles-Melkarth to right / SEPTIM TVRO COLO, Astarte standing facing, turreted, holding long sceptre and resting on trophy on her right, crowned by Nike standing on small column to left, on her left; at her feet, to left, small Marsyas standing to right, carrying wineskin on shoulder and raising hand; to right, murex shell. RPC VI, 8674 (temporary); BMC 390; for countermark: GIG 15. Near Very Fine.(12.96gr, 29mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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