LOT 2804
Ancient Roman Republican Coins - Mn Fonteius C f - Cupid AR Denarius 85 B.C.
Rome mint. Obv: laureate head of Apollo right with thunderbolt below and EX A P behind. Rev: Cupid sat on goat right with Dioscuri pileus each side and Bacchus thyrsus below, within wreath. Very fine.(2.98 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, dealer.
LiteratureCraw. 353/2; Syd. 726; RSC Fonteia 12; Sear 273.
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LOT 2804
Ancient Roman Republican Coins - Mn Fonteius C f - Cupid AR Denarius
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
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Ancient Roman Provincial Coins - Philip II - Nisibis - Shrine Bronze 247–249 AD
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Obv: AYTOK K M IOYLI FILIPPOC CEB legend with laureate and cuirassed bust left, wearing balteus and holding shield decorated with a gorgoneion. Rev: IOY CEP KOLW NECIBI MHT legend with tetrastyle shrine with Tyche, veiled and turreted, sitting facing within; ram leaping right above her; river god swimming right at her feet. 11.05 grams.
Good very fine.
Property of a North London gentleman. -
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Ancient Roman Provincial Coins - Caracalla - Laodikeia ad Mare - Athena Bronze 198-217 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Laodikeia ad Mare mint, Obv: (clockwise from top right) AYTO KAICAR M AYR ANTNONYON CE (sic) legend with laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right; CAG (AG ligate) countermark on cheek. Rev: (clockwise from top right) IOYL LAODIKEwN MHTROPOLEwC legend with Athena, wearing Corinthian helmet, sitting left on cuirass, holding Nike and spear, shield behind her. 10.89 grams.
Good fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
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Ancient Roman Provincial Coins - Julia Mamaea - Bithynia - Standards Bronze 222-235 AD
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Nicaea mint. Obv: IOYLIA MAMAIA AYG legend with draped bust right, wearing stephane. Rev: NI-KA-IE-WN between the shafts of three standards, each surmounted by a wreath. 3.06 grams.
Very fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
