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LOT 3382
Nero AE 23mm of Tripolis, Phoenicia. Dated CY 379 (AD 67/8).
Laureate head of Nero to right; lituus before; c/m: IMP(erator) • G•AL(ba) (IMP and AL ligate) within rectangular incuse / ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤ-ധ[Ν L ΘΟΤ (date)] anticlockwise, jugate heads of the Dioscuri to right. RPC I, 4520; SNG Copenhagen 277; for c/m: Howgego 592. Near Very Fine.(7.74gr, 23mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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