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A bronze coin of Antiocheia showing a lyre made from a tortoise shell Coin Type: Bronze AE15 of Antiocheia ad Orontem in Seleukis and Pieria.
Mint and Date: Antiocheia ad Orontem, 55-56 CE
Size and Weight: 14mm x 15mm, 3.71g
Obverse: Laureate head of Artemis right.
Reverse: ANTI-OX.ET ΔIP (ET ΔIP = Year 114, Caesarean era)
A chelys, a lyre made form a tortoise shell.
Provenance: drgb333 (eBay), October 2009
Ref: BMC Galatia, etc. pg. 161, 86; Lindgren III 1149
BW Ref: 002 044 151
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