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- ID: 593
Submitter: Jean-Luc
Added: 1999-04-07
SYRIA.
Tryphon.
AR-Tetradrachm.
Av.: Diademed head r.
Rv.: Elaborate Macedonian helmet with spike and ibex-horn, around, oak wreath.
16,33 g.
Ref.: BoC 18/2, 1993, p. 8, 3a.
FAKE – This rather diabolic counterfeit copied a Tryphon tetradrachm from the Berlin Museum of which electrotypes are known to exist, a unique variety with the monogram in a circle.