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Details
LOT 2786
Judaea. Herodians, Herod I AE Eight Prutot. 40-4 BCE.
Mint in Samaria (Sebaste?). Dated RY 3 (38/7 BCE). Pileus on couch topped by star; two palm branches above / HPΩΔOY BAΣIΛΕΩΣ, tripod; L Γ (date) to left, monogram of TP to right. RPC I, 4901; Meshorer 44; Hendin 1169. Good Very Fine.(6.56gr, 22mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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