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LOT 3477
Titus BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 2 (AD 79/80).
• ΑΥΤΟΚ ΤΙΤΟΥ ΚΑΙΣ ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΥ ΣΕΒ, laureate head to right / OMO-NOIA, Homonoia seated to left, holding olive branch and resting elbow on armrest; L B (date) to left. RPC II, 2463; Köln 317; Dattari (Savio) 422; K&G 22.2; Emmett 233.2. Near Very Fine.(12.97gr, 24mm, 11h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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