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E-Sale 106  16 Feb 2023
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Lot 256

Estimate: 150 GBP
Price realized: 220 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. 3.30g, 17mm, 12h.

Near Extremely Fine. Rare.

From a private European collection.

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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