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Details
LOT 2695
Phoenicia, Marathos AE 22mm. Dated CY 131(?) (129/8 BC).
Laureate head of Zeus to right / Double cornucopia; date to right, Phoenician letters in fields. Cf. Duyrat, Ateliers 325; HGC 10, 195. Very Fine.(8.03gr, 22mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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