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Coin of Selge with bust of Severus Alexander

Roman Provincial
Imperial Period
A.D. 222–235
Mint: Pisidia, Selge

Medium/Technique Bronze
Dimensions Diameter: 30.5 mm. Weight: 16.53 gm. Die Axis: 6
Credit Line Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number63.914
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

DescriptionObverse: Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander to right.
Inscription in Greek.
R4everse: Tyche standing, head to left, with rudder in right hand, cornucopia in left.
Inscription in Greek.
ProvenanceBy 1963: with Hesperia Art, 2219 St. James Street, Philadelphia 3, Pa. (Hesperia Art Bulletin XXV, no. 143); purchased by MFA from Robert E. Hecht, Jr., June 19, 1963