PHRYGIA, Dionysopolis. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Æ (27mm, 8.17 g, 12h). Dated RY 70 (AD 221/2). VF.

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Lot: 331. Estimated: $ 150

Roman Provincial, Bronze

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PHRYGIA, Dionysopolis. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Æ (27mm, 8.17 g, 12h). Dated RY 70 (AD 221/2). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Demeter, wearing crown, long veil, and peplos, standing facing, holding torch in each hand; to lower left, small figure of Telesphorus, wearing hooded cloak, standing facing. Von Aulock, Phrygiens 156-9 (same dies); RPC VI Online 5651; BMC 26 (same dies). Green-brown patina, slight roughness. VF. Rare.

Ex Ed Waddell inventory with his ticket.

All of the four examples recorded by von Aulock were struck from the same dies. This obverse die was also used to strike coins for Laodicea ad Lycum (see Kraft pl. 14, 38a-b).

Closing Date and Time: 7 September 2022 at 11:50:00 ET.

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