Gemini III, January 9th, 2007
Lot # 339 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$3500 / Price 
Realized: US$3500 

Augustus. (27 BC-14 AD). Silver tetradrachm (13.75 gm). Laodicea ad 
Mare, Year 32 = 16 BC. [KAIÓAPOÓ] ÓEBAÓTOY, laureate head right, BË 
before neck / IOYËIEÙN TÙN KAI ËAOÄIKEÙN ÓE, turreted, draped, and 
veiled bust of Tyche right, A behind neck, Ö before neck. RPC 4381 
(3 specimens: BM, Vienna, Paris). Prieur 1101. The fourth specimen 
recorded. Very fine/extremely fine. 

Cf. RPC, page 634: Laodicean tetradrachms of “Augustus, Divus 
Augustus and Nero [are] all very rare today and struck from very few 
dies.”. 

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  ... Lot 339 sold for high bid of $3500 [ $4025, or approx 3111.325 EUR, 2052.75 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 


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