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LOT 2825
Elagabalus AE 33mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 218-222.
AVT K MAP AVPH ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right / ANTIOXEΩN MHTPO KO, Tyche seated to left on rocks, holding grain ears; river-god Orontes swimming left below, ram running left above, Δ-E and S-C across fields. RPC VI, 30603 (temporary). Very Fine. Very rare; only one example cited by Roman Provincial Coinage Online.(17.49gr, 33mm, 6h). [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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