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Coin Type: Bronze AE18 of Smyrna in Ionia, 2nd-1st century BCE Mint and Date: Smyrna, ? Size and Weight: 18mm, 6.32g Obverse: Head of Kybele right, turreted. Reverse: Statue of Aphrodite Stratonikis facing, head right, left arm resting on a column and holding small Nike; tall sceptre in right hand. Bird in right field. ΣMYPNAIΩN to right, (?)EIΣIΣ and monogram to left. Ref: GCV 4565 var. (different magistrate) Provenance: frascatius (eBay), March 2006 BW Ref: 001 025 074 |
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