LOT 3079
Agrippina II AE 17mm of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. AD 50-59.
ΓΑΙΟΣ ΠΟΣΤΟΜΟΣ (Gaius Postumus), magistrate. ΑΓΡΙΠΕΙ-ΝΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤH, draped bust to right / ΓΑΙΟΥ ΠΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ, eagle, with wings spread, standing facing on cippus, head to left. RPC I 2918; SNG Copenhagen 569; BMC 174. Good Very Fine.(4.65gr, 17mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE Dichalkon. Time of Augustus, 31 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Dated Actian Era Year 25 (7/6 BC). Pseudo-autonomous issue. Turreted, draped, and veiled bust of Tyche to right / Tripod-lebes containing three laurel branches; ΑΝΤΙΟΧ[ΕΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟ]ΠΟΛ[ΕΩΣ] to right, ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜ[ΟΥ] to left, E-[K] (date) flanking tripod; all within wreath. RPC I 4243; McAlee 89. 4.75gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. Ex property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Phoenicia, Tyre AE 13mm. Time of Trajan, AD 98-117.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Dated CY 230 (AD 104/5). Pseudo-autonomous issue. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right; palm frond behind / Astarte, holding wreath and stylis, standing to left on galley; ΛΣ (date) to left, monograms of ΜΗ and ΤΥΡ to right; Phoenician letters below. RPC III, 3883; Rouvier 2251; SNG Copenhagen 356. 2.07gr, 13mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Agrippina II AE 17mm of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. AD 50-59.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
ΓΑΙΟΣ ΠΟΣΤΟΜΟΣ (Gaius Postumus), magistrate. ΑΓΡΙΠΕΙ-ΝΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤH, draped bust to right / ΓΑΙΟΥ ΠΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ, eagle, with wings spread, standing facing on cippus, head to left. RPC I 2918; SNG Copenhagen 569; BMC 174. 4.65gr, 17mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
