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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 576	Auction date: 4 December 2024
Lot number: 446 Price realized: 140 USD   (Approx. 134 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description: EGYPT, Alexandria. Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Dichalkon (14.5mm, 2.62 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 49/50). Laureate head right / Frog seated right; L I (date) above. Köln 96 & 3448; Dattari 170; K&G 12.68; RPC I 5179; Emmett 100.10. Brown surfaces, obverse scratches, slight roughness and smoothing. Near VF. The frog is a representation of Heqet, an Egyptian goddess of fertility, who often took the form of a frog. To the Egyptians, the frog was an ancient symbol of fertility and birth, related to the annual flooding of the Nile. Heqet was the wife of Khnum, who formed the bodies of new children on his potter's wheel. Estimate: 150 USD

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