LOT 3093
Augustus AE 21mm of Damascus, Seleucis and Pieria. 27 BC-AD 14.
Dated CY 283 (30/29 BC). Bare head to right / ΔAMAΣKHNΩN, Tyche seated to left on rock, extending right arm and holding cornucopia; river-god Chrysoroas at feet; L ΓΠ Σ (date, retrograde) to left; all within wreath. RPC I 4786; Rosenberger 8; DCA 500. Near Very Fine.(7.65gr, 21mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Judaea. Procurators, Porcius Festus AE Prutah. 59-62 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Jerusalem mint. In the name of Nero. Dated RY 5 of Nero (58/9 CE). NЄPѠNOC in three lines within wreath / L Є KAIC-APOC, palm branch. RPC I 4972; TJC 345; Hendin GBC 6, 6380; Hendin GBC 5, 1351. 2.20gr, 16mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Judaea, Gaba AE 11mm. Time of Domitian, AD 81-96.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Dated Year 142 (AD 83/4). Tetrastyle temple with pediment; ΓΑΒΗ below / Palm branch; ΡΜ-Β (date) across fields. RPC II 2241; Rosenberger I, 7. 1.36gr, 11mm, 11h.
Very Fine. Of the highest rarity; only three examples cited by RPC and only one example on CoinArchives (Numismatica Ars Classica 64, 1912).
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 31mm of Singara, Mesopotamia. AD 238-244.
Estimate: £70 - 90 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £39
Struck AD 241-244. AVTOK K M AT(sic) ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPAN[KVΛΛINA CEB, confronted busts of Gordian, laureate, draped and cuirassed on left, and Tranquillina, draped and wearing stephane on right / AVP CEΠ KO-Λ CINΓAPA, Tyche seated to left on rock, holding branch; the centaur Sagittarius above to left, discharging arrow, river god swimming to left below. BMC 13; SNG Copenhagen 257; Lindgren & Kovacs 2627. 22.26gr, 31mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From a UK private collection.
