Details
LOT 3492
Severus Alexander AE 20mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 222-235.
[IMP] CAES M AVΡ SEV ALEXANDER, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [SEP] TVRO METROP COL [PEMIC?], three-quarter view of temple with four columns to right, with stairway; globe in pediment; below, murex shell; Δ above. Cf. RPC VI Online 8698 (temporary); cf. Rouvier 2384 (as Elagabalus). Near Very Fine. Rough surfaces.(7.01gr, 20mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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