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LOT 2787
Judaea. Herodians, Herod I AE Prutah. 40-4 BCE.
Mint in Samaria (Sebaste?). Dated RY 3 (38/7 BCE). Palm branch; leaf to left and right / ΗΡΩΔ[ΟΥ ΒΑΣΙ]ΛЄΩΣ, aphlaston; L Γ (date) to left, monogram to right. TJC 47; Hendin GBC 6, 6207; Hendin GBC 5, 1172; RPC I 4904; HGC 10, 655; DCA 807. Very Fine.(1.34gr, 14mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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