LOT 3313
Caracalla AE Assarion of Thuria, Messenia. AD 198-217.
M AY[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΘOY[PI]-ATΩN Λ-A, Athena standing to left, holding spear and patera. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 834.3-4. Near Very Fine.(4.21gr, 22mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Hadrian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 19 (AD 134/5).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
AYT KAIC TΡAIAN ΑΔΡIANOC CЄΒ, laureate head to left, with slight drapery(?) on his right shoulder / L ЄΝΝЄΑ Κ Δ (date), draped bust of Serapis to right, wearing kalathos. RPC III 5943; Dattari (Savio) 1465; K&G 32.621; Emmett 889.19. 5.65gr, 23mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
London, UK, art market, 1980s. Private collection, London, UK. -
Claudius AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm of Ephesus, Ionia. Struck circa AD 41-42.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,680
TI CLAVD CAES AVG, bare head to left / DIAN EPHE, temple of Diana Ephesia: cult statue of Diana of Ephesus with fillets hanging from her wrists, polos on her head within tetrastyle temple, pediment decorated with figures flanking a central table with disk above, two tables and recumbent figures in angles. RPC I 2222 (Cistophoric mint); RSC 30. 11.73gr, 25mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine. Beautiful old cabinet toning with golden iridescence on reverse. Minor oxidations.
From the collection of Georges Müller, numismatist (collector's tickets included). -
Septimius Severus AR Tetradrachm of Laodicea ad Mare, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 209-211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
ΑΥΤ • ΚΑΙ • ϹЄΟΥΗΡΟϹ • ϹЄ •, laureate and draped bust to right / • ΔΗΜΑΡΧ • ЄΞ • ΥΠΑΤΟϹ • ΤΟ • Γ •, eagle standing facing, head to left, with spread wings and wreath in beak; between legs, star. RPC V.3 Unassigned ID 87372; Bellinger 51; McAlee 31; Amandry & Prieur 46; Prieur 1162. 13.13gr, 29mm, 1h.
Near Extremely Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
