Hess-Divo
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ROMAN PROVINCIAL COINS. PHOENICIA.
TYROS. Valerianus I, AD 253-260. Bronze. AE 14.21 g. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev. COL TVR - O M - ETR Dido, wearing long dress and mantle, standing l., supervising the construction of the city of Carthago: she holds a sceptre in her l. hand and pointing with a rod in her lowered r. hand to a workman with pickaxe; above, a bricklayer is working at the city-gate; low in field r., murex. BMC 290, 470var.; Cf. Auction Münzen & Medaillen GmbH, Weil/Rh. 20 (2006), 917.
Rare and interesting mythological scene. Dark green patina. Good very fine
Provenance: Auction F. Sternberg, Zürich VI (1976),733.
TYROS. Valerianus I, AD 253-260. Bronze. AE 14.21 g. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev. COL TVR - O M - ETR Dido, wearing long dress and mantle, standing l., supervising the construction of the city of Carthago: she holds a sceptre in her l. hand and pointing with a rod in her lowered r. hand to a workman with pickaxe; above, a bricklayer is working at the city-gate; low in field r., murex. BMC 290, 470var.; Cf. Auction Münzen & Medaillen GmbH, Weil/Rh. 20 (2006), 917.
Rare and interesting mythological scene. Dark green patina. Good very fine
Provenance: Auction F. Sternberg, Zürich VI (1976),733.