Interesting Egyptian-Themed Type
342, Lot: 448. Estimate $200. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CILICIA, Mopsouestia-Mopsos. Herennius Etruscus. As Caesar, AD 249-251. Æ (31mm, 22.24 g, 1h). Dated CY 318 (AD 250/1). ЄΠIΦ KЄCAP KVI ЄPЄ AITP MЄC ΔЄKION, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AΔPI ΔЄ-KI-ANω-N M-oΨЄ[AT]ωN, Serapis, raising hand and holding scepter, and Isis, holding sistrum and cornucopia, standing left; crab to lower right, Є HIT (date) in exergue. SNG France –; SNG Levante –; SNG Levante Supp. –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Pfälzer –; BMC –. VF, green patina, roughness, surface bubble on obverse. Interesting and possibly unpublished Egyptian-themed issue.
From the Edoardo Levante Collection.