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Nomos AG > obolos 25Auction date: 23 October 2022
Lot number: 555

Lot description:


PHOENICIA. Tyre. Caracalla, 198-217. (Bronze, 26 mm, 12.65 g, 6 h). IMP M AVR ANTONINVS Laureate bust of Caracalla to right, slight drapery on left shoulder. Rev. FL P TVRVS METRO COLONI Herakles standing left, holding club and lion skin in left hand, and sacrificing with patera held in right over altar to left; two baetyli (the Ambrosial Rocks of Tyre) to inner left. AUB -. BMC -. Cf. Rouvier 2314 (baetyl in left field). Rare. A few deposits and minor roughness, otherwise, very fine.



Starting price: 75 CHF