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Lot 993

Starting price: 300 CHF
Price realized: 650 CHF
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LYDIA. Thyateira. Septimius Severus, 193-211. Medallion (Bronze, 44 mm, 34.09 g, 6 h), alliance issue with Pergamum, struck under the strategos Moschus, 193-195. AYT KAI Λ CEΠ CEOYHPOC ΠEP Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus to right. Rev. EΠI CTPA MOC-XOY B ΠEPΓAMHNΩN / ΘYATEIPHNΩN OMONOIA Asclepius of Pergamum standing to right, holding serpent-entwined staff, standing vis-à-vis Apollo Tyrimnaeus of Thyatira standing to left. GRPC Lydia 282 (same dies). Franke & Nollé 2298 (this coin) = Mabbott 1856 (this coin). SNG von Aulock 3221. Extremely rare, only five recorded by Franke & Nollé. Scratches on reverse, otherwise, about very fine.

From the Orca collection, USA, and those of R. D. Frederick, Classical Numismatic Group e288, 10 October 2012, G. R. Drewry, Classical Numismatic Group e109, 2 March 2005, 116 and T. O. Mabbott Part I, H. Schulman, 6-11 June 1969, 1856.
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