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LOT 2686
Seleucis and Pieria, Apameia AE 20mm. Dated SE 243 (70/69 BC).
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ Α[ΣΥΛΟΥ], elephant walking to right; ΓΜ[Σ] (date) to lower right. HGC 9, 1419; DCA 410. Very Fine.(6.72gr, 20mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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