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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2071744, member: 56859&quot;]I picked up another provincial from Tyre.&nbsp; This one is thought to depict Dido on a galley, although that identification is not certain.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]383727[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Tyre.&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Julia Maesa, Augusta</b> </p><p>CE 218-224/5</p><p>AE 27, 12.71g (11h)</p><p>Obv: IVLIA MAE - SA AV[G] Draped bust right, wearing stephane</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; TVRIORVM Dido (?) standing left on deck of galley sailing right, extending right hand and holding cornucopia in left; to left, helmsman bending left over rudder (?); to right, sailor extending right hand and holding curved staff in left; stern decorated with a shield and aphlaston, [two murex shells] in exergue</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; CNG e320, 12 Feb. 2014, lot 323 (same dies). Rouvier 2408[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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