LOT 2766
Augustus AE As of Carthago Nova, Spain. 27 BC-AD 14.
M. Postumus Albinus and L. Porcius Capito, duoviri. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, laureate head to right / M • POSTVM • ALBIN • L • PORC • CAPIT • II • VIR • Q, priest standing facing, holding simpulum and branch. RPC I 170; ACIP 3140. Very Fine.(13.32gr, 27mm, 10h.).
ProvenanceEx UK private collection.
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LOT 2766
Augustus AE As of Carthago Nova, Spain.
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
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Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 34mm of Singara, Mesopotamia. AD 238-244.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Struck AD 241-244. AVTOK K M ANT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CEB, confronted busts of Gordian, laureate, draped and cuirassed on left, and Tranquillina, draped and wearing stephane on right / AVP CEΠ K-OΛ CINΓA[PA], 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. 24.99gr, 34mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From a UK, private collection. -
Macrinus AE 23mm of Parium, Mysia. AD 217-218.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
IMP C M OPE SEVE MACRINVS AV, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from behind / C G I H PA (Colonia Gemella Julia Hadriana Pariana), Genius standing facing, head to left, holding cornucopia with left hand and patera over lighted altar with right. Unpublished in the standard references, including BMC, SNG BnF, SNG von Aulock and Copenhagen. 5.95gr, 23mm, 2h.
Very Fine. Black patina. Unpublished with this obverse legend.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Philip I AE 28mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 244-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
AVTOK K M IOVΛI ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟC CЄB, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ANTIOXEΩΝ ΜΗΤPΟ KΟΛΩN, turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right; ram leaping to right with head to left above, Δ Є over S C across fields, star below. McAlee 990. 15.19gr, 28mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
