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LOT 2932
Trajan Decius BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 249-251.
Struck AD 249. AYTOK K ΓAI MЄ KYIN ΔЄKKIOC CЄB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞOYCIAC, eagle standing to left on palm branch, spread wings, holding wreath in beak; S C below. Prieur 500; McAlee 1106. Near Very Fine.(10.35gr, 27mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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LOT 2932
Trajan Decius BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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