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LOT 3490
Trajan AR Drachm of Bostra(?), Arabia. Struck AD 112.
[ΑVΤΟΚΡ Κ]ΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / [ΔΗΜΑΡΧ] ЄΞ ΙϚ ΥΠΑΤ Ϛ, Arabia standing to left, holding branch in right hand and bundle of cinnamon sticks in left; behind, [camel standing to left]. Cf. RPC III 4073 (Arabian mint); Metcalf, Caesarea 15; Sydenham, Caesarea 184. Near Very Fine.(3.66gr, 19mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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