Details
LOT 2664
Seleukis and Pieria, Seleukeia Pieria AE 21mm. Circa 200-1 BC.
Dated SE 165 (148/7 BC). Adelphoi Demoi ("Brother Peoples") issue. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Winged thunderbolt; EΞP (date), monogram of BA and AΔEΛΦΩN above; ΔHMΩN and monogram of BYΠ below; all within wreath. BMC 6-8 (Antioch); HGC 9, 1396. Very Fine.(8.29gr, 21mm, 4h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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