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LOT 3217
Trajan AE 22mm of Aradus, Phoenicia. Dated CY 365 (AD 106/7).
Laureate head to right / Goddess seated on rudder to left, wearing kalathos, holding end of rudder and cornucopia; to right, Phoenician letter; ΕΞΤ (date) in upper left field, ΑΡΑΔΙΩΝ below. Cf. RPC III 3814. Very Fine.(7.61gr, 22mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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