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LOT 3385
Valerian AE 27mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 253-260.
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / COL TV-RO METR, Cadmus advancing to right holding spear in left hand and beckoning behind him with right; to left, murex shell. RPC X Unassigned ID 62891 var. (bust and obverse legend). Very Fine. Very rare.(11.20gr, 27mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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