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Details
LOT 3240
Titus AE 24mm of Philadelphia, Decapolis. Dated CY 143 (AD 80/1).
[AYTO]KPAT[ΩP] TITOC KAI[CAP], laureate head of Titus to right; c/m: head of Herakles (Melkarth), bearded, wearing lion's skin to right, within circular incuse / [ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN], laureate head of Herakles-Domitian to right; [L ΓMP (date)] behind. RPC II 2106; Spijkerman 9; Rosenberger 7; for c/m: Howgego 17. Good Fine.(9.67gr, 24mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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