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LOT 2833
Arabia, Bostra AE 12mm. Time of Commodus. Dated CY 76 (AD 181/2). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Turreted and draped bust of Tyche to right; TV downwards to right, OC• (date) across field / BOCT-PA, camel standing to right. Cf. RPC IV.3 Online 3953 (temporary); Kindler 19. Very Fine. Very rare.(0.95gr, 12mm, 8h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Vespasian AE 24mm of Laodicea Catacecaumene (as Claudiolaodicea Combusta), Lycaonia. AD 69-79.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤ[ധΡ ΚΑΙCΑΡ] ΟΥЄCΠΑCΙΑΝΟC •, laureate head to right / CЄΒΑCΤΗ ΝЄΙΚΗ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟ[ΛΑΟΔΙΚЄധΝ], Nike standing to left, holding wreath and palm. RPC II, 1612; SNG BnF 2320-1; Von Aulock, Lykaoniens 141-50. 11.5gr, 24mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics. From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady. -
Judaea, Procurators. Pontius Pilate AE Prutah. Dated RY 17 (30/1 CE). Jerusalem mint. Struck under Tiberius.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
TIBЄ[PIOV KAIC]APOC, lituus / L IZ (date) within wreath. RPC I 4968; Hendin GBC 6, 6371; Hendin GBC 5, 1342; TJC 333. 2.35gr, 17mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Gordian III BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Struck AD 240.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC CЄΒ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞΟΥCΙΑC, eagle with spread wings standing facing, head to left and holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. RPC VII.2, 3488; McAlee 860; Prieur 282. 11.44gr, 27mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a Somerset, UK, private collector.
