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Auction 108  16 May 2018
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Lot 443

Estimate: 1000 USD
Price realized: 1750 USD
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THRACE, Philippopolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Medallion (40mm, 41.36 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 214. Laureate heroic-style bust left, wearing aegis, seen from behind / KOINON ΘPAKΩN AΛEZAN ΠYΘI/A EN ΦIΛIΠ/Π-O , emperor on horseback right, about to spear fallen enemy. Mouchmov, Philippopolis 364; Varbanov 1421. VF, green-brown patina. A number of heavily tooled specimens of this type have been on the market in recent years. This piece has even surfaces devoid of the usual tooling and smoothing. Rare thus.

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