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LOT 3005
Trajan AR Tridrachm of Bostra, Arabia. AD 98-117.
Struck AD 112-114. AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANOC CЄB ΓЄPM ΔAK, laureate head to right, with slight drapery over far shoulder / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ ΥΠATO Ϛ (''tribune of the people, consul for the sixth time''), aquila between two signa; wreath on left signum and hand on right signum. RPC III 4055; Metcalf 9. Near Very Fine.(9.76gr, 23mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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