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Lot 291

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 440 GBP
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Macedon under Roman Rule Æ 24mm. Circa 166-165 BC. Facing mask of Silenos wearing ivy wreath / MAKEΔONΩN in two lines, D above; all within ivy wreath. MacKay pl. III, 8-10; BMC 55; SNG Copenhagen 1324-1326; Touratsoglou, Macedonia 25; HGC 3.1, 1117. 10.11g, 24mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine; an expressive portrait of Silenos.

From a private German collection.

Previously assigned to the Praetor D. Junius Silanus, these coins have been re-attributed to an earlier period of barbaric invasion following further scholarship and hoard analysis.
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