LOT 2879
Caracalla, as Caesar AE 27mm of Uncertain Mint, Minor Asia. AD 195-198.
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. Fine.(10.56gr, 27mm, 12h.). [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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LOT 2879
Caracalla, as Caesar AE 27mm of Uncertain Mint, Minor Asia.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Trebonianus Gallus AE 30mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 251-253.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Γ ΟΥΙΒ ΤΡЄΒ ΓΑΛΛΟC CЄΒ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ANTIOXЄΩN MHTPO KOΛΩN, cult-statue of Tyche of Antioch seated facing with river-god Orontes at feet within tetrastyle temple façade with arched central bay and conical roof set on ornate base; ram leaping to right above, Δ Є across upper fields, S C in exergue. McAlee 1181; SNG Copenhagen 292. 18.29gr, 30mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Julia Mamaea AE 18mm of Bostra, Arabia. AD 222-235.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
IVLIA MAMAEA AVGVSTA, draped bust to right, wearing stephane / COLONIA BOSTRA, Marsyas standing to right, wineskin over shoulder and raising right hand. RPC VI, 9343 (temporary); Kindler, Bostra 41; Spijkerman 53; Rosenberger 48; Sofaer 48. 4.59gr, 18mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Pierced. Rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Commodus AE 27mm of Abila, Decapolis. Dated CY 251 (AD 187/8).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙC ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ϹЄ ΑΒΙΛ Ι Α Α Γ Κ ϹV ΑΝϹ, Tyche, holding sceptre and Nike, standing to right with foot on river-god Heiromax; Nike standing on low basis on either side of Tyche; all within central arch of distyle temple façade. RPC IV.3, 6516 (temporary); Spijkerman 12; Rosenberger 14; Sofaer 14. 15.48gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
