LOT 3433
Caracalla AE 33mm of Plotinopolis, Thrace. AD 198-217.
AYT K M AVP CЄVH ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate head to right / ΠΛΩTЄINO-ΠOΛЄITΩN, youthful hero or emperor on horseback to right, holding transverse spear. Moushmov -; Varbanov 1851 var. (bust and obverse legend). Near Very Fine. Extremely rare and apparently unpublished. Only one other example on CoinArchives (Helios Numismatik, Auction 5, 25 June 2010, lot 582).(19.05gr, 33mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Trajan AE Dichalkon of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 16 (AD 112/3).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Laureate head to right / Headdress of Isis; L Ι-Ϛ (date) across fields. RPC III 4773; Dattari (Savio) 1097-8; Emmett 710. 1.11gr, 14mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AR Drachm of Bostra(?), Arabia. Struck AD 112.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
[ΑVΤΟΚΡ Κ]ΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / [ΔΗΜΑΡΧ] ЄΞ ΙϚ ΥΠΑΤ Ϛ, Arabia standing to left, holding branch in right hand and bundle of cinnamon sticks in left; behind, [camel standing to left]. Cf. RPC III 4073 (Arabian mint); Metcalf, Caesarea 15; Sydenham, Caesarea 184. 3.66gr, 19mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Septimius Severus AE 28mm of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 193-211. Julius Faustinianus, consular legate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AV K Λ CЄΠTI CЄVHPOC Π, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Y I ΦAYCTINIANO-Y MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩΝ, Homonoia standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia. Varbanov 797. 12.74gr, 28mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
