LOT 2799
Caracalla AE 24mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 198-217.
Struck circa AD 214-217. IMP M AVR ANTONINVS, laureate head of Caracalla to right / SEP TVRVS METRO COLONI, bull standing right before vexillum inscribed LEG III GAL; before, murex shell. AUB 208; BMC 377. Very Fine.(10.29gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Tiberius AE As of Italica, Spain. AD 14-37.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
TI CAESAR AVGVSTVS PONT MAX IMP, bare head to right / MVNIC ITALIC PERM DIVI AVG, altar inscribed PROVIDENTIAE AVGVSTI in three lines. ACIP 3333; RPC I 65; SNG Copenhagen 417. 14.92gr, 28mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Augustus AE As of Emerita, Spain. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Struck 23-2 BC. PERMISSV CAESARIS AVGVSTI, facing head of Silenos, amphora pouring water below / Priest plowing to left with pair of oxen; AVGVS[TA] above, EMERITA below. RPC I 11; ACIP 3373. 11.62gr, 27mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 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 Unpublished in the standard references, including BMC, SNG BnF, SNG von Aulock and Copenhagen. 5.95gr, 23mm, 2h.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 Unpublished with this obverse legend.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.
