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Lot 578

Starting price: 50 CHF
Price realized: 65 CHF
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PHRYGIA. Laodicea ad Lycum. Time of Tiberius, 14-37. Dichalkon (Bronze, 14 mm, 2.37 g, 1 h), struck under the magistrate Pythes, son of Pythes. Wolf seated to left, raising his right forepaw and with filleted double-axe behind; all within laurel wreath tied below. Rev. ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ Aphrodite standing left, holding dove in her right hand; monogram of ΠΥΘ to left. BMC 57-8. RPC I 2904. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG von Aulock 8412. Dark green patina with light deposits. Very fine.


RPC notes that the animal on the obverse has been variously identified, but that a wold seems the most likely as it is a pun on the river Lykos.
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