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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Tiberius AE Assarion of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. AD 14-37. ΚΟΡ(ΝΗΛΙΟΣ) ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ (Cornelius Dioskourides II), in office for the second time.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΣΕΒΑΣ-ΤΟΣ, bare head of Tiberius (?) to right / ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ ΛAOΔ-IKEΩN, Zeus Laodiceus standing facing, head to left, holding eagle in his right hand and long sceptre in his left; to right, monogram of KOP. RPC I, 2906; BMC 141-2; SNG Copenhagen 547-8. 6.19gr, 20mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Sand patina.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
RPC Online footnote: The monogram, which also occurs on Neronian coins of Aineias (2926-7), has been variously interpreted as standing for coronatus (Ramsay), ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ (BMC) and ΑΡΧΟ (Wa) Κορ(νήλιος) is correct, as it is spelled out in full on coins of another Dioscurides (under Domitian: KM 266, nos 20-1, von Aulock 3845). -
Trajan AE Assarion of Poemanenum, Mysia. AD 98-117. ΕΓΔΙΚΟΣ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟΣ (Egdikos, son of Fronton), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £107
[ΑΥΤΟ]ΚΡΑΤΟΡΙ ΚΑΙCΑΡΙ CΕΒΑΣΤΟ [...], laureate head to right / ΕΠΙ ΕΓΔΙΚΟΥ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝ[...] ΠΟΙΜΑ, Dionysos standing to left, holding kantharos in right hand, left resting on long thyrsos; at his feet, panther to left. Unpublished in the major references; for a similar example cf. RPC III, 1657. 3.19gr, 17mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; unpublished and apparently unique.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
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Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus AE Diassarion or 2 Assaria of Laodicea ad Mare, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 161-169.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
[ΑYΤΟΚΡ]ΑΤΩΡ Κ-ΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝ[...], laureate head of Marcus Aurelius to right / ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ [...], laureate head of Lucius Verus to right. Cf. RPC IV.3 Online 9261; cf. SNG Righetti 2108. 10.76gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
