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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Gordian III AE 27mm of Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior. AD 241-244. ΣΑΒ. ΜΟΔΕΣΤΟΣ [Sab(inius?) Modestus], legatus Augusti pro praetore.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
AΥT K M ANTΩ ΓOΡΔIANOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΥΠ CAB MOΔЄCTOΥ (OY ligate) NIKOΠOΛЄIT[ΩN] ΠΡOC IC[TPON], Tyche standing facing in tetrastyle temple, head to left, holding cornucopia; in pediment, globe. RPC VII.2, 1310; AMNG 2087-90. 10.99gr, 27mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Augustus AE 16mm of Philippi(?), Macedon. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
[AVG], bare head to right / Two founders driving yoke of oxen to right, plowing pomerium. RPC I 1656; SNG BN 1439-48 (Parium); Varbanov 3770. 4.95gr, 16mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Hadrian AE 34mm of Koinon of Bithynia. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙС ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒ, bareheaded and draped bust to left / ΚΟΙ-ΝΟΝ ΒΕΙΘΥΝΙΑС, octastyle temple; prow in exergue. RPC III, 1019; BMC 19. 24.09gr, 34mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
