SAMARIA. Caesarea Maritima. Trajan (AD 98-117). AE (32mm, 25.35 gm, 1h). VF, tooled, lacquered. IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OP AVG GER DAC COS VI P P, laureate bust of Trajan right, drapery on left shoulder / C•I•F•AVG / CAES (the first Flavian Augustan colony, Caesarea), tetrastyle temple with central arch, enclosing statue of Astarte-Tyche standing left, bust in right hand, grounded spear in left, right foot on prow; figure of harbor god with anchor below, horned altar in front center. RPC online 3954. De Saulcy 4. Kadman 22., BMC 39. Ex Palm Desert Collection (Goldberg, Auction 110, 4 June 2019), lot 1811, purchased from Superior Galleries in the 1970s-80s

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