Details
LOT 3506
Vespasian AE Diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 6 (AD 73/4).
ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΟΥΕΣΠΑ[ΣΙΑΝΟΥ], laureate head to right / Draped bust of Isis to right, wearing taenia and crown of solar disk and horns; L Ϛ (date) to right. RPC II 2442; Dattari (Savio) 385; Köln 299; K&G 20.44; Emmett 217.6. Near Very Fine.(9.23gr, 26mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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