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Electronic Auction 534  15 Mar 2023
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Lot 569

Estimate: 200 USD
Price realized: 120 USD
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Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (28mm, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa mid AD 107-108. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Octastyle temple with portico on either side; within temple, figure of Jupiter seated facing; sculptural figures adorning architrave and roof. RIC II 577 var. (bust type); Woytek 307b. In ANACS encapsulation 7288712, graded VG 10.

Philip Hill has argued that the structure represented on this coin is the Temple of Jupiter Victor on the Palatine Hill, which he posits is the same temple that was later rededicated to Sol El-Gabal under Elagabalus.
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