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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 757

Estimate: 3000 GBP
Price realized: 2700 GBP
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Vespasian AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated 'New Holy Year' 2 = AD 69/70. AYTOKPA OYECΠACIANOC KAICAP CEBACTOC, laureate head right / ETOYC NEOY IEPOY B, eagle standing to left on club with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; palm frond to left. Prieur 122 (this coin); McAlee 345/3 (this coin); RPC II 1954.29 (this coin, illustrated on pl. 87). 14.83g, 27mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; attractive cabinet tone. In exceptional state of preservation for a Flavian tetradrachm.

This coin published in M. Prieur, A Type Corpus of The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and Their Fractions from 57 BC to AD 253 (Lancaster, 2000);
This coin published in R. McAlee, The Coins of Roman Antioch (Lancaster, 2007);
This coin published in A. Burnett, M. Amandry, I. Carradice, Roman Provincial Coinage, vol. II (London and Paris, 1999);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection.
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