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LOT 3943
Theophilus AE Follis. Struck AD 830/1-842. Uncertain provincial mint.
[ΘЄOFIL] ЬASIL', half-length facing figure of Theophilus, wearing loros and tufa decorated with pellets, holding labarum and globus cruciger / + ΘЄOFILЄ AVGOVSTЄ SV ҺICAS in four lines. DOC p. 441, 17; SB 1685. Near Very Fine.(6.57gr, 29mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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