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LOT 2639
Phrygia, Bria or Briana AE 19mm. Time of the Severans, AD 193-235.
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Draped bust of Serapis to right, wearing kalathos / BΡΙΑ-ΝΩΝ, Isis standing facing, head to left, holding sistrum with right hand and situla with left. Von Aulock, Phrygiens 225-37; SNG von Aulock 3520; BMC 1. Near Very Fine. Edge chipped.(3.38gr, 19mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 545, 30 August 2023, lot 411.
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