Details
LOT 3420
Time of Maximinus II AE 16mm. AD 310-313.
Antioch mint; struck circa AD 312. 10th officina. 'Persecution Issue'. GENIO AN-TIOCHENI, Tyche seated facing, river-god Orontes swimming below / APOLLONI SANCTO, Apollo standing to left, holding patera and lyre; I in right field, SMA in exergue. Van Heesch, Last 3a; McAlee 170j; Vagi 2954. Near Very Fine.(0.90gr, 16mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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