LOT 3309
Augustus and Agrippa AE Dupondius of Nemausus, Gaul. Circa 9/8-3 BC.
Head of Agrippa to left, wearing rostral crown combined with laureate crown, back to back with head of Augustus to right, wearing oak wreath; IMP above, DIVI F below / Chained crocodile to right, palm frond upwards in centre, wreath to left of palm tip with long ties trailing to right; COL NEM across fields; two palm fronds below. RIC I 158; RPC I 524. Near Very Fine.(12.72gr, 26mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Philip II, as Caesar AE 31mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 244-247.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
ΜΑΡ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹ, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ANTIOXЄΩN MHTPO KOΛΩ, towered, draped and veiled bust of Tyche to right, ram leaping to right above, head reverted to left; Δ Є across upper fields, S C across lower fields. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 7507; CRS 494d; McAlee 1067. 18.20gr, 31mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the German art market before 2000. Private collection, South Germany. -
Hadrian AR Hemidrachm of Caesarea-Eusebeia, Cappadocia. Dated RY 4 (AD 119/120).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒΑϹΤ, laureate head to right with drapery on left shoulder / Nike advancing to right, holding wreath and palm; ЄT Δ (date) in right field. RPC III, 3074; Sydenham, Caesarea 255; Ganschow 194a. 1.60gr, 14mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla BI Tetradrachm of Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), Judaea. Struck AD 215-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
AVT KAI ANTധ-NINOC CЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠAT[OC Δ], eagle standing facing on thyrsus, head and tail to left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, theatrical mask of Silenus to left; wine jug in exergue. RPC V.3 Unassigned ID 83653; Bellinger 352; Meshorer 94; Prieur 1620. 12.60gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Toned.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
