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Coin of Laodicea with head of Augustus, struck under Zeuxis

Roman Provincial
Imperial Period
about 15 B.C. (?)
Mint: Asia: Phrygia, Laodicea

Medium/Technique Bronze
Dimensions Diameter: 20 mm. Weight: 5.26 gm. Die Axis: 11
Credit Line Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number63.244
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

DescriptionObverse: Laureate head of Augustus to right.
Inscription in Greek.
Reverse: Zeus Laodiceus standing to left, holding eagle on his right hand, staff in left. Monogram in field at left.
Inscription in Greek.
ProvenanceBy 1963: with Hesperia Art, 2219 St. James Street, Philadelphia 3, Pa. (Hesperia Art Bulletin XXI, no. 263); purchased by MFA from Robert E. Hecht, Jr., March 20, 1963