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LOT 2782
Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 98-117. Uncertain Regnal Year.
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head of Trajan to right; below, club and eagle standing to right / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ [...], laureate bust of Melkart to right, with lion skin tied around neck. Cf. RPC III, 3539 (RY 15). Near Very Fine.(13.75gr, 23mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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