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LOT 2961
Phoenicia, Sidon AE 21mm. Time of Augustus to Tiberius (27 BC-AD 37).
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Struck circa 10 BC-AD 18. Europa on bull to left; ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ and [date] below / Altar before tetrastyle temple with tall podium. Cf. RPC I 4568-71. Near Very Fine.(6.41gr, 21mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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