LOT 3218
Augustus AE 21mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. 27 BC-AD 14.
CAESAR, laureate head to right / Dolphin entwined around trident; all within wreath. RPC I, 4536; Rouvier 486; Sawaya 136-146. Near Very Fine. Very rare.(8.50gr, 21mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Caracalla AE 30mm of Laodicea ad Mare, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AV GER C M G, laureate head to right / ROMAE, she-wolf standing to right, head to left, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus; FEL in exergue. BMC 91 var. (obverse legend); SNG Copenhagen 365 var. (same). 13.99gr, 30mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Gallienus AE 28mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
ΑV Κ Π ΛΚ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝ-ΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄVΚЄΩ ΚΑ- around, ΛV[...]-ΔΝ in field to left, Athena standing to right, holding shield and striking with spear at serpent-legged giant Enceladus, who hurls stone. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 60515. 9.54gr, 28mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Double struck of reverse.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
The reverse type features Athena fighting the giant named Enceladus during the Gigantomachy, the war between the Giants and the gods. This scene appeared in art as early as the sixth century BC on an Attic black-figure pot, and is referenced in Euripides' Ion. Ancient poets located the burial spot of Enceladus under Mount Etna in Sicily, and the volcano's eruptions were said to be the breath of the giant, and the tremors caused by him rolling over under the mountain. (Virgil, Aeneid 3.570-587) -
Augustus AE 18mm of Philippi(?), Macedon. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £47
[AVG], bare head to right / Two priests ploughing to right. RPC I 1656; Varbanov 3770. 4.03gr, 18mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
