Details
LOT 3456
Nero AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean Era (AD 63/4).
NEPΩN KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ, laureate head to right, wearing archaic aegis / ΕTOYΣ BIP • I, eagle standing to right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; palm branch to right. RPC I 4189; McAlee 265b; Prieur 89. Good Very Fine. Lightly toned.(15.06gr, 26mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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