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 Apparently unpublished variety.(7.91gr, 24mm, 12h.).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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Domitian, with Agrippa II AE 24mm of Caesarea Panias, Judaea. Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Dated RY 24 of Agrippa II (83/4 CE). ΔOMЄT [KAICAP ΓЄPMANI], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Victory standing to right, holding wreath and palm; ЄTO KΔ(date) B[AC] across fields; [AΓPIΠΠA] below. RPC II, 2262; TJC 150; Sofaer 208-9; Hendin GBC 6 6345; Hendin GBC 5 1315. 9.16gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE Trichalkon. Time of Nero, AD 54-68.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Q. Ummidius Durmius Quadratus, legatus Augusti pro praetore. Dated year 105 of the Caesarean Era (AD 56/7). Pseudo-autonomous issue. ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ, turreted, draped, and veiled bust of Tyche to right / ΕΠΙ ΚΟΥΑΔΡΑΤΟΥ, ram leaping to right, head to left; star within crescent above, ET EP (date) below. RPC I 4290; McAlee 102. 5.25gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. Ex property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla AR Tetradrachm of Emesa, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Struck AD 215-217. [ΑΥΤ K M] A • ANTΩNЄINOC • CЄB •, laureate head to right / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑΤΟC TO Δ, eagle standing facing, wings spread, head to left, wreath in beak; bust of Shamash (Sol) to left between legs. Cf. Prieur 1009. 12.38gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
