149, Lot: 212. Estimate $150.
Sold for $253. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHRYGIA, Apameia. Appius Claudius Pulcher Ap.f. Imperator, 53-51 BC. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (26mm, 11.47 g). Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / [AP] PULCHER AP [F] IMP, bow-case between two serpents;
[AP]A left, two flutes right,
QEOPROPOS and
APOLLWNIOU (magistrates) below. Stumpf 83 = Hunterian II p. 477, 2. VF, lightly porous, uneven strike. Only the Hunterian specimen cited by Stumpf.
From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 633.
