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LOT 2994
Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE 26mm. Dated year 4 of the Caesarean Era (46/5 BC). Time of Sex. Iulius Caesar or Q. Caecilius Bassus, Proconsul, 47-46 BC or de facto proconsul, 46-44 BC.
Laureate head of Zeus to right; c/m: female head (Isis or Cleopatra?) to right within oval incuse / ANTIOXEΩN THΣ MHTΡOΠOΛEΩΣ KAI IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY KAI AΥTONOMOΥ, Zeus seated to left, holding Nike in right hand and sceptre in left; Δ (date) in exergue. RPC I 4220; DCA 392; McAlee 49; SNG Copenhagen 79; HGC 9, 1367. Very Fine.(12.15gr, 26mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
According to McAlee [The Coins of Roman Antioch (p. 74, note 25)], coins bearing a countermark, appear to depict Cleopatra, and were used to mark the coins circulating in the Syro-Phoenician territories which were given to her by Mark Antony.
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