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LOT 2791
Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated RY 16 (AD 111/2).
ΑΥΤOΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head of Trajan to right, set on eagle standing to right; to lower left, club / ΔΗΜΑΡX ЄΞ Iς ΥΠΑΤ ς, the Tyche of Antioch seated to right on rocks, holding grain ears and poppy head in her right hand; below to right, river-god Orontes swimming to right, looking back. RPC III, 3543; McAlee 471; Prieur 1499. Near Very Fine.(13.65gr, 26mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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