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Lot 68. Caracalla Assarion, Kyparissia, ex BCD

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Extremely rare mint
Caracalla Assarion, Kyparissia, ex BCD

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Bidding closed (Sunday, November 18th, 19:34:00 CET)
Current time: Sunday, November 24th, 08:45:25 CET

Price realised: CHF 320.00 (1 bid)
Approx. EUR 343.74 / USD 358.11 / GBP 285.82

High bidder: Bidder 1

eAuction #10, Lot 68. Estimate: CHF 400.00

Caracalla (198-217 AD). AE Assarion (21 mm, 3.85 g), Kyparissia, Messene. C. 198-208 AD.
Obv. M AVP ANTΩ [...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right.
Rev. KVΠAPICCIЄΩN, Tyche standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae.
BCD Peloponnesos 799 (this coin); otherwise, unpublished.

Extremely rare. Good very fine.

From the BCD collection; ex LHS 96 (2006), 799 and Colosseum Coin Exchange MBS 78 (1994), 257.

Kyparissia was a small port on the west coast of Messenia with a history dating back at least to the 4th Century BC. Its only coinage was issued under the Severans.



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