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Triton XXIV  19-20 Jan 2021
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Lot 202

Estimate: 2000 USD
Price realized: 7000 USD
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Contorniates. Late 4th century AD. Æ Contorniate (37mm, 22.37 g, 6h). In the name of Trajan. IMP CAES NERVAE TRAINO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V PP, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left; palm frond to left / ANNON A AVGVSTA CERES, SC in exergue, Annona standing right, right hand on hip, offering cornucopia in left to Ceres seated left, who extends right hand to receive cornucopia and holding reed in left; altar between them. Alföldi, Kontorniat, 244.11 (this coin). Green patina, areas of earthen encrustation. VF.

From the Peter J. Merani Collection. Ex John F. Sullivan Collection (CNG Inventory 765857 [August 2006]); Garth R. Drewry Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2004), lot 1272; Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's 1-3 May, 1980), lot 1402; Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin (May 1965), lot A467; A. Hess (28 November 1912), lot 598; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXIV, 10 May 1909), lot 2926; Robert Collection (Sambon 1898), lot 1285.
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