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Phoenicia, Ake-Ptolemaïs. Municipal issue. 1st century A.D. Æ (16 mm, 2.09 g, 12 h). Perhaps struck under Nero, ca. A.D. 54-68. [I]OVI [AVGVS], Nike advancing right, holding palm and wreath / COL COS CLA, winged caduceus between two crossed cornucopias. Seyrig, RN 1969, 47-8; Kadman -; Rosenberger -; Rouvier -; RPC 4751. aVF, black patina with orange-earthen deposits on reverse. Very rare.
From the Kenneth Miller Collection of Ake-Ptolemaïs and Related Biblical Coins.
RPC records seven specimens of this rare type, but there has been at least one additional example to appear on the market in recent years. Seyrig missed the type in his corpus of the mint (H. Seyrig, "Le monnayage de Ptolémaïs in Phénicie," RN 1962, pp. 25-50), at the time not realizing the coin was from Ake-Ptolemaïs, but later cited two specimens in "Monnaies hellénistiques," RN 1969, pp. 47-9, nos. 47-8, fig. 9.
From the Kenneth Miller Collection of Ake-Ptolemaïs and Related Biblical Coins.
RPC records seven specimens of this rare type, but there has been at least one additional example to appear on the market in recent years. Seyrig missed the type in his corpus of the mint (H. Seyrig, "Le monnayage de Ptolémaïs in Phénicie," RN 1962, pp. 25-50), at the time not realizing the coin was from Ake-Ptolemaïs, but later cited two specimens in "Monnaies hellénistiques," RN 1969, pp. 47-9, nos. 47-8, fig. 9.