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LOT 2831
Phoenicia, Sidon AE 18mm. Time of Nero. Dated CY 169 (AD 58/9). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Head of Dionysus wearing ivy wreath to left / Cista; ΘΞΡ above, ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΑΣ below; all within ivy wreath. RPC I, 4587; SNG Copenhagen 238; BMC 155. Near Very Fine.(5.53gr, 18mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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