LOT 3466
Caracalla AE 22mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. Struck AD 211-215.
[IMP M AVR SEV ANTON AVG], laureate head to right / [COL BER], Poseidon standing facing, head to left, wearing polos, in quadriga of four hippocamps, holding dolphin in right hand and trident in left RPC V.3 Online Unassigned ID 74074; Rouvier 563; cf. BMC 156–159; cf. Sawaya 1463-1485. Near Very Fine.(9.72gr, 22mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Otacilia Severa AE 23mm of Magnesia ad Sipylum, Lydia. AD 244-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Μ ΩΤΑ ϹЄΒΗΡΑ ϹЄΒ, diademed and draped bust to right, crescent at shoulders / ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ ϹΙΠΥ, Cybele seated to left, holding patera and sceptre, resting arm on tympanum; at feet, lion. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 20367; Hochard 1126. 5.30gr, 23mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Lydia, Philadelphia AE 17mm. AD 193-211. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Head of Dionysos to right, wreathed with ivy / ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN, Pan, naked, dancing to left with both arms outstretched. BMC 35; SNG Copenhagen 353; Mionnet IV, 537; GRPC Lydia 87. 2.71gr, 17mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukis and Pieria, Apameia AE 22mm. Dated SE 283 (30-29 BC). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣVΛΟV, thyrsos; ΓΠΣ (date) to inner left, Α-Ν across fields below. RPC I, 4347. 10.23gr, 22mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine. Rare date.
Acquired on the UK art market. From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.
