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Lot 530

Estimate: 300 USD
Price realized: 200 USD
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Diadumenian as Caesar. ; Diadumenian as Caesar; 217-218 AD, Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior, Governor M. Claudius Agrippa, AE 25-25.5, 9.40g. Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov, Nicopolis 2012, p. 372, last two illustrations (both from same dies as ours); bust var. of AMNG-1822. Obv: K M O??E? AN[TONINOC] ?IA?[VMENIA]NO - C Head bare r. Rx: [V?] AGPI??A NIKO?O - ?ITON ?PO around, [C] ICTPO in exergue, Trophy of arms, at base of which are two seated captives, a female with arm resting on knee and a male with hands tied behind back; on r., emperor in military dress standing l., raising r. arm behind the trophy presumably in order to complete it, and holding spear with lowered l. arm; on l., Nike (Victory) standing r., extending r. arm to inscribe one of the shields on the trophy. Rare. This reverse type was apparently struck from just one reverse die, which, as Pick noted, was used with obverses of both Macrinus and Diadumenian.. EF
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