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Greece/Seleucid; Alexander II Zabinas BCE 128-122

AE 19 mm serratus, 5.76 g, perhaps Apamea on Orontes mint (cf. pp. 458-9 in SC II)

SC 2242.2 or .3, CSE 199 v

O: hd of young Dionysus r., wreathed with ivy, dotted border (scratches on obv)
R: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ on r., AΛΕΞΑΝΔPOY on l., winged Tyche stg l., calathus on hd, holding ship’s tiller and cornucopiae.

Control to outer left above, aphlaston outer left below.