Details
LOT 3252
Seleukis and Pieria, Antioch AE 20mm. Dated year 25 of the Actian Era (7/6 BC). P. Quinctilius Varus, legate. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΟΥΑΡΟΥ, Tyche seated to right on rocky outcropping, holding palm branch; EK (date) to right; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming to right. RPC I 4242; BMC 57; McAlee 85. Very Fine.(6.17gr, 20mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Acquired on the UK market.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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