LOT 3094
Caracalla BI Tetradrachm of Emesa, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 198-217.
Possibly contemporary imitation. Blundered legend, laureate head to right / Blundered legend, eagle standing facing, head and tail to left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash to left. For prototype cf. Prieur 954. Good Very Fine. Flan cracks at 2h and 4h.(11.70gr, 30mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 31mm of Singara, Mesopotamia. AD 238-244.
Estimate: £35 - 45 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £19
Struck AD 243-4. AVTOK K M ANT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CЄB, on left, bust of Gordian, laureate, draped and cuirassed to right, seen from rear, and on right, Tranquillina, draped and wearing stephane to left / AVP CЄΠ KOΛ CINΓAPA, Tyche, turreted and veiled, seated to left on rock, holding ears of corn; above, the Centaur Sagittarius to left, discharging arrow; below, river god swimming to left. RPC VII.2, 3471; cf. BMC Arabia 8-13; SNG Copenhagen 257. 23.00gr, 31mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection. -
Hadrian AE Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Dated RY 19 (AD 134/5). [AVT KAIC TPAIA]N AΔPIANOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / L ЄN-NE[A]KΔ (date), Elpis advancing to left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RPC III 5987; Dattari (Savio) 1689; Milne 1466; Köln 1173-1174. 24.30gr, 34mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Uncertain Emperor AE 26mm of Minor Asia. Circa 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Uncertain Roman Provincial issue countermarked twice: male bust to right and large B in incuse circle. 9.23gr, 26mm.
Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
