Details
LOT 2746
Seleukis and Pieria, Apameia AE 24mm. 1st century BC.
Dated SE 285 (28/7 BC). Pseudo-autonomous issue. Head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣVΛΟV, thyrsos; EΠΣ (date) to inner left, E-I across fields below. RPC I 4349. Very Fine. Rare date.(7.92gr, 24mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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