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 Extremely rare and apparently unpublished.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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Caracalla, as Caesar AE 27mm of Uncertain Mint, Minor Asia. AD 195-198.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £20
Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Uncertain male deity standing facing, head to left, holding patera(?) with right hand and sceptre with left. 10.56gr, 27mm, 12h.
Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Trajan AE Dichalkon of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 17 (AD 113/4).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head to right / Hemhem crown, L I-Z (date) below. RPC III 4820; Dattari (Savio) 7221; Emmett 707.17. 1.95gr, 14mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
The Hemhem crown was an ornate triple Atef with corkscrew sheep horns and usually two uraeus. The Egyptian word Hemhem means to shout, cry out, possibly indicating that the Hemhem crown represented a battle horn. -
Hadrian AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm of Smyrna, Ionia. After AD 128.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare head to right / COS III, the two Nemeses standing to right and left, facing one another, each holds out a fold of her dress, the one on the left holds a bridle, the other on the right holds cubit rule. RIC 507; RPC III 1361; Metcalf 32. 10.37gr, 28mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Rare.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 58, 20 June 2019, lot 904. Property of a London antiquarian.
