Roman Imperial Coins
Lot 5595 Session 17 (11.30am Fri 26 Nov) Roman Imperial Coins
Estimate $400
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SOLD $340
GETA, (A.D.209-212), issued as Caesar 2090, AE as or dupondius, Rome mint, (11.988 grams), obv. P SEPTIMIVS GETA CAES, bust bare headed, draped to right, rev. around PONTIF COS II, woman standing to right, holding sceptre and drawing out drapery from breast, to right two small figures lifting hands to one another, (cf.S.7282, RIC 150a, C.113). Dark green patination, nearly extremely fine and very rare, comes with collectors card description.
Ex Cappenalle Collection and from Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 86 (lot 3468) and previously from the Arthur Bally Herzog Collection sold at Munzen und Medaillen, Basel, Auktion Sale 93, December 16, 2003 (lot 222). This example is probably the finest known. The RIC illustrated example (Pl.16, 8) is not as fine as this piece.
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