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E-Live Auction 5  27 Sep 2022
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Lot 369

Estimate: 250 GBP
Price realized: 260 GBP
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Ionia, Ephesos Æ Tessera. Circa 1st century AD. Stag lying to left, head reverted, Ε-Φ across fields, CΚѠΠΙ in exergue / Bee, ΚΗΡΙΛΙΣ ΩΔΕ ΠΡΟΣ ΠΑΛΥΡΙΝ around. SNG Copenhagen 355; BMC 186; SNG von Aulock 1875. 3.80g, 19mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine. Rare.

From the Italo Vecchi Collection;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 45, 5 May 2018, lot 254.

During the Hellenistic period and throughout the 1st century AD, a series of tesserae were made at the cult centre of Ephesos. The legend of this type however remains an enigma, its meaning still uncertain.
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