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LOT 3123
Phoenicia, Ake (as Ptolemais) AE 24mm. Dated year 5 of the Caesarean Era (45/4 BC).
Laureate head of Zeus to right; palm frond over shoulder; countermark(?) / ΠΤΟΛΕ-ΜΑΕΩΝ ΙΕΡΑΣ to right ΑΣΥ [KAI] to left, Tyche standing to left on prow of galley, holding aplustre and rudder in right hand, cornucopia and palm in left; L E (date) and monogram to left. Cf. Kadman 69; HGC 10, 8; DCA 743. Near Very Fine.(8.21gr, 24mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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