Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3259. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Mark Antony and Octavia. 39 BC. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.12 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. Conjoined heads of Mark Antony, wearing ivy-wreath, and Octavia right / Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus, on cista mystica flanked by two interlaced snakes with heads erect. RPC I 2202; CRI 263; Sydenham 1198; RSC 3. VF, toned, light marks under tone.
From the John A. Seeger Collection.