Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 737. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MOESIA INFERIOR, Callatis. Septimius Severus. 193-211 AD. Æ Pentassarion (29mm, 11.98 gm, 6h). AVT K
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PER, laureate head right /
KALL A TI ANWN, Isis Pharia advancing right, modius on head, cloak blowing out behind her, holding billowing sail in outstretched hands; E to right. AMNG I -; BMC Thrace -; SNG Copenhagen -; Mionnet -; Varbanov 421. EF, dark green patina, obverse double-struck. Very rare. ($300)
From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (10 November 1999), lot 386.See lot 807, below, for an Alexandrian drachm with the same reverse type.