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LOT 3080
Phrygia, Hiearpolis AE 23mm. Time of Philip I, AD 244-249.
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Radiate and draped bust of Apollo Lairbenos to right, ΛAIP-BHNOΣ around / IЄPAΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ around laurel wreath containing ΠΥΘΙΑ in three lines. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 20732; SNG BnF 1260a. Near Very Fine.(5.75gr, 23mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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