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Auction: 323 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 28

Kings of Bosporos. Polemo I (ca. 14/3-10/9 BC). AE 4 Units. 21 mm, 8.97 gms. Laureate head of Apollo right within laurel wreath, rev. Tripod with cover, royal monogram left, myrtle branch right above mark of value ?. MacDonald 243. Macdonald notes that the Bosporan types with Polemo's monogram were still issued after his death possibly as late as 9/10 AD either by Dynamis or Roman officials active in the western part of the kingdom. Deep olive-green, near black, some smoothing. Minor flan flaw, two incomplete pocks upper left both sides. Otherwise Good Very Fine with pleasing types.

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