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Auction XXII  7-8 Oct 2021
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Lot 542

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 1300 GBP
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Caracalla Æ 26mm of Isaura, Cilicia. AD 205-209. AY K M AY ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust to right, breastplate decorated with gorgoneion / MHTPOΠOΛЄΩC ICAYPΩN, laureate and draped male bust set to right on column with a Corinthian capital; all within tetrastyle temple with arched pediment. SNG Levante 263 var. (same obv. die, but differing rev. legend arrangement); SNG BnF 497 var. (same); SNG von Aulock 5412 var. (male bust turned to left). 8.78g, 26mm, 7h.

Near Mint State. Rare.

Levante describes the reverse bust as Septimius Severus, but the prominence of Hercules in the city's pantheon makes him the more likely object of a cult temple.
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