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440, Lot: 346. Estimate $100.
Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ (32mm, 25.04 g, 5h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Perseus, holding patera and harpa, and Demeter (or priestess?), holding lighted torch with each hand, flanking garlanded altar with bull lying left before; behind altar, upper portion of figure (statue of Trajan Decius?), holding a round shield and spear; to left of altar, tall column surmounted by cult statue of Apollo Lyceius. SNG BN 1767 (same dies); SNG Levante 1165 (same dies); RIC IX 1349. Fine, brown surfaces with traces of green, some porosity. Rare, the authors of RPC cite 13 specimens, all struck from the same pair of dies.


From the Ralph DeMarco ‘Perseus’ Collection.