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LOT 3089
Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 98-117.
Struck AD 116/7. ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑͶΟϹ ΑΡΙ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ • ΔΑ • Κ ΠΑΡΘ, laureate head of Trajan to right, set on eagle standing to right; club to left / • ΔHMAPX • [...], laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules to right, wearing lion skin around neck. Cf. RPC III 3562; cf. McAlee 467 (Tyre); cf. Prieur 1522 (Tyre). Near Very Fine.(13.49gr, 25mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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