MOESIA INFERIOR. Nicopolis ad Istrum. Caracalla, 198-217. Tetrassarion.

MOESIA INFERIOR. Nicopolis ad Istrum. Caracalla, 198-217. Tetrassarion (Bronze, 29 mm, 14.83 g, 1 h), Flavius Ulpianus, legatus consularis, circa 210-211. AY K•M•AYP ANTΩNINOC Laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla to right, seen from behind. Rev. Y ΦΛ•OYΛΠIAN NIKOΠΟΛI/T•ΠPOC I Zeus seated left on low throne, holding phiale in his right hand and long scepter in his left. AMNG I 1564. Hristova/Jekov 8.18.1.4. Varbanov 3155. A beautiful piece with a very attractive glossy patina. A few faint scratches on the obverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.

Ex Leu 11, 14 May 2022, 188 and Classical Numismatic Review XLV.1, winter 2020, inv. no. 528353, from the E. L. Collection, Gorny & Mosch 265, 14 October 2019, 769 and ex Lanz 109, 27 May 2002, 611
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