LOT 3331
Antoninus Pius AE 26mm of Ancyra, Phrygia. AD 138-161. ΛΙΚΙΝΙΟΣ ΑΡΧΩΝ (Likinios, archon).
ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Τ ΑΙΛOϹ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝOϹ, bare head to right / Є-ΠΙ ΛΙΚΙΝΙOΥ ΑΡ-Χ ΑΝΚΥΡΑΝΩΝ, Zeus, nude, standing facing, head to left, holding anchor in his right hand and long sceptre in his left. RPC IV.2 Online 1722; BMC 26-27. Near Very Fine.(8.20gr, 26mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Antoninus Pius AE 26mm of Ancyra, Phrygia. AD 138-161. ΛΙΚΙΝΙΟΣ ΑΡΧΩΝ (Likinios, archon).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Τ ΑΙΛOϹ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝOϹ, bare head to right / Є-ΠΙ ΛΙΚΙΝΙOΥ ΑΡ-Χ ΑΝΚΥΡΑΝΩΝ, Zeus, nude, standing facing, head to left, holding anchor in his right hand and long sceptre in his left. RPC IV.2 Online 1722; BMC 26-27. 8.20gr, 26mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Septimius Severus AE Assarion of Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior. AD 193-211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
ΑΥ Κ ΛI CE CEYHPOC, laureate head to right / NIKOΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, Zeus seated to left, holding patera and long sceptre. HH&J, Nikopolis 8.14.1.20; AMNG 1346; Varbanov 2461. 2.58gr, 17mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nero AE 23mm of Tripolis, Phoenicia. Dated CY 379 (AD 67/8).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Laureate head of Nero to right; lituus before; c/m: IMP(erator) • G•AL(ba) (IMP and AL ligate) within rectangular incuse / ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤ-ധ[Ν L ΘΟΤ (date)] anticlockwise, jugate heads of the Dioscuri to right. RPC I, 4520; SNG Copenhagen 277; for c/m: Howgego 592. 7.74gr, 23mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
