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LOT 2722
Phrygia, Apameia AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. Circa 88-67 BC.
ΔΙΟΤΡΕΦΗΣ (Diotrephes), magistrate. Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre, and containing a strung bow, between the snake heads, ΔIOTPEΦOYΣ in two lines, AΠA to left, two flutes to right. BMC 16; SNG Copenhagen 153. Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; only one other example on CoinArchives (Roma, E-89, 448).(12.24gr, 26mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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