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Details
LOT 2841
Trajan BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 15 (AD 111/2).
ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ, laureate head to right / Canopus to right; L I-E (date) across fields. RPC III, 4576; Dattari (Savio) 648; Emmett 371. Near Very Fine.(12.10gr, 22mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Ex Lockdales, Suffolk, UK.
From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady.
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