Roman Provincial
Lot 3616 SESSION 17 (9.30AM FRIDAY 24TH NOV) Roman Provincial
Estimate $800
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SOLD $850
MARK ANTONY AND OCTAVIA, (40-32 B.C.), silver cistophorus, Ephesus Mint, issued 39 B.C., (11.77 g), obv. laureate head of Mark Antony to right, around M ANTONIVS IMP COS DESIG ITER ET TERT, rev. Octavia head to right on cista mystica between two interlaced serpents, III VIR R P C around, (S.1412, BMC 133, RSC 2, Syd.1197, RPC 2201). Light porosity, scratch to right of obverse portrait, good very good and scarce.
Ex Dr Hugh Preston Collection.
Previously Gorny & Mosch Auction 204, lot 1736.
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