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LOT 2788
Trebonianus Gallus AE 35mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 251-253.
ΑΥ Κ • ΓΑ • ΙΟΥΛΙ ΤΡЄΒΩ ΓΑΛΛΟϹ, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄΥΚ-[Є]ΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΤΩ ΚΑΛ-ΔΝΩ, draped busts of Artemis-Tyche wearing kalathos on right and laureate Apollo on left, facing each other; in front of Apollo, palm branch, behind Artemis-Tyche, cornucopiae. RPC IX 1331; cf. SNG BnF 1051. Good Very Fine. Double struck on reverse.(21.26gr, 35mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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LOT 2788
Trebonianus Gallus AE 35mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
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