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LOT 3455
Philip II AE 26mm of Nisibis, Mesopotamia. AD 247-249.
AYTOK M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB, radiate and cuirassed bust to left, seen from front, wearing balteus / IOΛ(sic) CЄΠ KOΛΩ NЄCIBI M[HT], temple with arched pediment and four columns enclosing draped, veiled and turreted Tyche of Antioch seated facing; above, ram (Aries) leaping to right, head to left; below, river-god Euphrates swimming to right. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 2962; BMC Arabia 24; SNG Copenhagen 240. Near Very Fine - Very Fine.(10.76gr, 26mm, 6h). [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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