435, Lot: 239. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Æ (23.5mm, 13.55 g, 12h). Countermark dated RY 3 of Gaius (Caligula), AD 39/40. ΓΑ/ Γ within oval stamp on a bronze of Tiberius from Antioch. McAlee p. 126; Howgego 522. Host Good Fine, c/m VF.
From the Richard Baker Collection.
No bronzes were struck at Antioch during the reign of Gaius (Caligula), but rather a series of dated countermarks were applied to earlier Augustan and Tiberian issues, and were dated years one through five.