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LOT 3098
Gallienus AE 30mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 253-268.
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AV, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / COL TV-RO ME, shrine with four columns and arcuated lintel; within, bust of Astarte to right; below, two carrying-poles projecting from front of base and murex shell. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 86131 corr. (bust not draped); BMC Phoenicia 478; Rouvier 2522 var. (laureate bust). Near Very Fine. Very rare; only two examples on RPC Online and none on CoinArchives.(14.19gr, 30mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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