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Very Rare Bronze of Natounia

CNG 84, Lot: 747. Estimate $300.
Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Adiabene. Natounia. Late 2nd-early/mid 1st century BC. Æ (19mm, 5.53 g, 1h). Radiate head (Helios-Shamash?) right / Camel standing left within wreath. Hoover, Natounia, Series 2, 4 (this coin cited and illustrated); Houghton 847-8; Seyrig, Trésor 14; cf. SC 2300 and 2307-8 (for undertype). Fine, rough brown surfaces, orange earthen deposits. Overstruck on an issue of Antiochos VIII of Syria. Very rare.