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LOT 3118
Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE Trichalkon. Dated year 104 of the Caesarean Era (AD 55/6). G. Ummidius Durmius Quadratus, legatus Augusti pro praetore. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
ANTIOXEΩN, turreted and veiled bust of the Tyche of Antioch to right / ΕΠΙ ΚΟΥΑΔΡΑΤΟΥ, ram leaping to right, head turned to look back; above, star; below, ΔP (date). RPC I, 4286; BMC -; McAlee 100; SNG Copenhagen 99. Very Fine.(7.52gr, 18mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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