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Web Auction 4  24 Jun 2018
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Lot 518

Starting price: 50 CHF
Price realized: 420 CHF
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PHRYGIA. Acmoneia. Nero, 54-68. Hemiassarion (Bronze, 19 mm, 4.31 g, 12 h), Lucius Servenius Capito, archon for the third time, with his wife, Julia Severa. [NEPΩN KAICAP] CEBACTOC Laureate head of Nero to right; to right, countermark: Asklepios standing facing, head to right, leaning with his left hand on serpent-entwined staff. Rev. CEPOYHNIOY KAΠITΩNOC KAI [IOYΛIAΣ CEO]YHPAC / AKMONEΩN / Zeus seated left, holding patera in his right hand and long scepter with his left; to lower left, [owl standing left, head facing]; in field to left, EΠI APX TO Γ in the form of monograms. RPC I 3176. For countermark, Howgego 241. An interesting and well struck countermark. Light pitting, otherwise, good fine.


The countermark was probably applied at the local sanctuary of Asklepios.
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