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LOT 3416
Augustus AE 21mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. 27 BC-AD 14.
P. Quinctilius Varus, legatus. Struck 6-4 BC. IMP CAESAR AVGVSTV, bare head to right / [...]CTLLLVS VVRVS, two aquilae between two standards. Cf. RPC I 4535. Very Fine.(7.56gr, 21mm, 12h). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market;
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Elagabalus 22mm of Esbus, Decapolis. AD 218-222.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
AVT C M AVP ANTONINVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Tyche standing to left within tetrastyle temple, with arcuated lintel, holding sceptre with left hand and small bust with right, right foot on bull's head (or prow); A-V above wings, [ЄC]BOVC in exergue. RPC VI, 9345.13 (temporary) (this coin); Rosenberger 3 (Tyche holds phiale and her foot on river-god); Sofaer 4-5. 9.93gr, 22mm, 6h
Near Very Fine. Rare. This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk).
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman; Ex Classical Numismatic Group, E-auction 531, 25 January 2023, lot 659. -
Philip II, as Caesar AE 28mm of Bostra, Arabia. AD 244-247.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
MARC IVL PHILIPPOS CESAR, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL METROPOLIS BOSTRA, wreath containing AKTIA ΔOVCAPIA in three lines. Sofaer 54; Kindler 46a; Spijkerman 60; Rosenberger 52. 13.24gr, 28mm, 1h
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman; acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar AE 24mm of Tripolis, Phoenicia. AD 139-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Dated SE 459 (AD 147/8). [ΑΥΡΗ]ΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙ [ϹЄΒ ЄΥϹЄΒ ΥΙΟϹ], laureate head to right / ΘΝΥ (date) ΤΡΙΠΟΛЄΙΤധΝ, draped busts of the Dioscuri jugate, to right; each wearing laureate pileus surmounted by star. RPC IV.3, 6807 (temporary); SNG Copenhagen 284. 10.27gr, 24mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
