Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4234 Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $280
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SOLD $100
SYRIA, Seleucis & Pieria, Antiochia ad Orontem (Antioch), Nero (A.D. 54-68), silver tetradrachm, (14.59 g), obv. laureate head to right of Nero, **NERWNOS* KAICAPO**S [SEBASTOU]*, rev. Z/OP (year 109 of Caesarian Era = A.D. 60-1), eagle standing to left, on thunderbolt, wings spread, palm branch in front (cf.S.618, McAlee 257, Prieur 81, RPC 4181). Good very fine/very fine with obverse surface roughness, struck in good silver.
Ex Gordon Parry Collection and first previously from Downies, Auction 245, May 12, 1992 (lot 5439).
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