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LOT 2783
Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Tr Pot XV Cos V (AD 110/1).
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head of Trajan to right, set on eagle standing to right; to lower left, club / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ IЄ ΥΠΑΤ Є, the Tyche of Antioch seated to right on rocks, holding grain ears in her right hand; below to right, river-god Orontes swimming to right, looking back. RPC III 3540; McAlee 470; Prieur 1498 (Tyre). Near Very Fine.(13.48gr, 25mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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