LOT 3487
Commodus AE 20mm of Capitolias, Decapolis. Dated CY 93 (AD 189/190).
A Κ Μ Α ΚΟΜΟΔ, bare head to right / ΚΑΠΙΤധΛ ΙЄ ΓϞ (date), Dionysus, nude, standing facing, head to left, crossing legs, holding kantharos with right hand and long thyrsus with left. RPC IV.3 6561 var. (laureate head); Spijkerman 12 var. (same); Rosenberger 12 var. (same); Sofaer 10 corr. (laureate). Very Fine. Pierced. Extremely rare issue. Only one other example on CoinArchives (Heritage World Coin Auctions, Sale 3018, 20378; wrongly attributed).(5.81gr, 20mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Elagabalus AE Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Struck possibly AD 219.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AYT K M ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / ΔHMAP[X ЄΞ YΠA] TO B, eagle with spread wings, head and tail to right, standing facing and holding wreath in beak; Δ Є across upper fields; between legs, star. Cf. Prieur 266. 10.87gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Seleukis and Pieria, Antioch AE 20mm. Dated year 25 of the Actian Era (7/6 BC). P. Quinctilius Varus, legate. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΟΥΑΡΟΥ, Tyche seated to right on rocky outcropping, holding palm branch; EK (date) to right; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming to right. RPC I 4242; BMC 57; McAlee 85. 6.17gr, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian. -
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Philip II AE 24mm of Nisibis, Mesopotamia. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AYTOK M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB, radiate and cuirassed bust to left / IOY CЄΠ KOΛΩ NЄCIBI MHT, Tyche of Antioch seated facing; above, ram (Aries) leaping to right, head to left; all within tetrastyle shrine; below, river-god Euphrates swimming to right. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 2962; SNG Copenhagen 240. 8.93gr, 24mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
