A Selection of Damascus Bronzes
208, Lot: 199. Estimate $100. Sold for $87. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ 23mm (10.98 g, 12h). Dated CY 377 (AD 65/6). Laureate head right; lituus before / Tyche seated left on rocks, extending right hand and holding cornucopia; conch shell(?) to right; below, river-god Chrysoroas swimming left. RPC I 4803; Rosenberger 14; SNG München 1012; BMC 6; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, black patina with a trace of dark green, light roughness.
Ex Dix, Noonan, Webb (29 September 2008), lot 5691.