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Electronic Auction 342  14 January 2015
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Lot 419

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 360 USD
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CILICIA, Aegeae. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (29mm, 18.01 g, 7h). Dated CY 260 (AD 213/4). [...]M AY CЄOVHPOC ANTωNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head right / [C]ЄVHPIANΩN [... A]NTΩNЄINOVΠ[...], Asclepius standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; to left, Telesphorus standing facing; ЄT/OY/C–ΞC (date) across field. SNG France –; SNG Levante –; SNG Levante Supp. –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Pfälzer –; BMC –. Near VF, dark brown patina, minor pitting on the reverse. Possibly unpublished.

From the Edoardo Levante Collection.

See SNG Levante 1741 (currently being offered here) for a similar reverse. Presumably some shortened form of AIΓЄAIΩN followed CЄVHPIANΩN, as there is very limited space for the full ethnic.
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