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25 March 2018
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Starting Price: 125 CHF
Hammer Price:  220 CHF
Lot 354

THRACE. Perinthus. Caracalla and Geta, as Caesar, 198-209. Hexassarion (Bronze, 34 mm, 16.84 g, 7 h), struck under Septimius Severus in honor of the Actian, Pythian and Philadelphian Games. AV K M AV ANTΩNEINOC KAI Π CEΠ ΓETAC KAI Draped busts of Caracalla, laureate on the left facing right, and Geta, bare-headed on the right facing left. Rev. AKTIA ΠYΘIA ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEIA ΠEPINΘIΩN NEΩKOPΩN Agonistic table bearing two palms and two prize crowns with a prize purse between them; below the table, an amphora and five balls. BMC 46. CNG MBS 60, 1216 (same dies?). Schönert-Geiss 639. Rare. Corroded and partially uncleaned, otherwise, good fine.

From the collection of W. F. Stoecklin, Amriswil, Switzerland, acquired from the Krakoff Collection in Belgrade in the 1930s.

Online bidding closes: 25 Mar 2018, 18:27:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 3 Jul 2025, 04:39:50 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:220 CHF by MailBidder2339 (7 bids)
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