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Electronic Auction 523  7 Sep 2022
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Lot 331

Estimate: 150 USD
Price realized: 350 USD
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PHRYGIA, Dionysopolis. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Æ (27mm, 8.17 g, 12h). Dated RY 70 (AD 221/2). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Demeter, wearing crown, long veil, and peplos, standing facing, holding torch in each hand; to lower left, small figure of Telesphorus, wearing hooded cloak, standing facing. Von Aulock, Phrygiens 156-9 (same dies); RPC VI Online 5651; BMC 26 (same dies). Green-brown patina, slight roughness. VF. Rare.

Ex Ed Waddell inventory with his ticket.

All of the four examples recorded by von Aulock were struck from the same dies. This obverse die was also used to strike coins for Laodicea ad Lycum (see Kraft pl. 14, 38a-b).
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