Details
LOT 3121
Seleukis and Pieria, Apameia AE 21mm. Dated SE 285 (28/7 BC). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / [Α]ΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ [Κ]ΑΙ ΑΣVΛΟV, thyrsos; EΠΣ (date) to inner left, A-N across fields below. RPC I, 4349; SNG Hunterian 3140. Very Fine.(9.29gr, 21mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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