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LOT 2924
Elagabalus BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 218-222.
Struck AD 219. AYT K M A • • ANTWNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / ΔHMAPX EΞ VΠATOC TO B •, eagle standing facing, head and tail to right, with wreath in beak; Δ Є across upper fields, star between legs. McAlee 761; Prieur 254. Very Fine.(14.11gr, 26mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 2924
Elagabalus BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Although the main Pythian Games were held at Apollo's sanctuary at Delphi, many other cities in the east of the Roman Empire periodically held smaller versions of this event. Often such events were associated with other deities, based on the important civic cults of each city. At Heliopolis, the site of a massive temple complex dedicated to Jupiter-Zeus-Baal-Hadad, Venus-Aphrodite-Astarte, and Bacchus-Dionysus, these games were known as the Certamina Sacra Capitolia Oecumenica Iselastica Heliopolitan, as noted on the reverse of the coin.
