Details
LOT 2944
Phrygia, Hierapolis AE 22mm. 2nd century AD.
Pseudo-autonomous issue. ZЄYC BΩZIOC, bare head of Zeus Bozios to right; c/m: female(?) bust to right within rectangular incuse / IЄPAΠΟΛЄΙΤ-Ω-Ν, Apollo holding reins in right hand and bipennis over left shoulder in left, riding horse to right. RPC III, 2358C; BMC Phrygia 42; SNG Copenhagen 429; SNG Munich 223. Good Very Fine.(5.79gr, 22mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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