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LOT 2781
Philip I AE 21mm of Metropolis, Ionia. AD 244-249.
M IOY • ΦIΛIΠΠOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / MHTPO-ΠOΛЄITΩN, Tyche standing facing, head to left, holding rudder with right hand and cornucopia with left. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 20411; SNG BnF 1652; SNG Copenhagen 933. Near Very Fine.(4.58gr, 21mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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