LOT 3099
Augustus AE 24mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. 27 BC-AD 14.
Dated CY 123 (AD 12/13). Laureate head to right, aphlaston before / Bull running to left, upon which sits Europa, who holds her veil and horn of bull; ΣΙΔΩΝ L ΓΚΡ (date) below. RPC -; Rouvier -; BMC Phoenicia -. Near Very Fine. Apparently unpublished variety.(7.91gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd., Auction 85, 19 November 2023, lot 218.
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Judaea, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Nero, AE 20mm of Caesarea Panias (as Neronias). Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Struck under Agrippa II, 61-68 CE. [NEPΩN KAIΣAP] ΣEBAΣTO, laureate head of Nero to right; invisible symbol before / [ΕΠI] BACIΛE AΓPIΠΠ NEPΩNIE in five lines within circular linear border within laurel wreath. Cf. RPC I, 4988-4990 (various symbols). 5.26gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Augustus AE 21mm of Damascus, Seleucis and Pieria. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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. 7.65gr, 21mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Gallienus AE 30mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AV, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / COL TV-RO ME, shrine with four columns and arcuated lintel; within, bust of Astarte to right; below, two carrying-poles projecting from front of base and murex shell. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 86131 corr. (bust not draped); BMC Phoenicia 478; Rouvier 2522 var. (laureate bust). 14.19gr, 30mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare; only two examples on RPC Online and none on CoinArchives.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
