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A bronze AE24 of Trajan from Seleukia Pieria, showing the sacred stone of Zeus Kasios. Coin Type: Bronze AE24 of Trajan, 98-117 CE
Mint and Date: Seleukia Pieria in Syria, 98-117 CE.
Size and Weight: 22mm x 24mm, 12.35g
Obverse: AVTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANOC APICT ΓЄPM ΔAK
Laureate head right.
Reverse: CЄLЄYKЄΩN ΠЄIЄPIAC
Sacred stone of Zeus Kasios in a tetrastyle shrine with a pyramidal roof surmounted by an eagle.
Exergue: ZЄYC KACIOC (Z retrograde)
Provenance: Gert Boersema (Vcoins), May 2009.
Ref: BMC Galatia, etc. pg. 274, 36
BW Ref: 032 041 140
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