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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Trajan AR Drachm of Bostra(?), Arabia. Struck AD 114-116.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
ΑVΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΩ ΑΡΙϹΤΩ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate and draped bust to right, seen from rear / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑΤΟ Ϛ, camel standing to left. Cf. RPC III 4078 (Arabian mint); Ganschow, Münzen X19b; Metcalf, Tell Kalak -; Sydenham, Caesarea 204. 2.86gr, 19mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Trajan AE Dichalkon of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 17 (AD 113/4).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head to right / Headdress of Isis; L Ι-Z (date) across fields. RPC III 4819; Emmett 710. 1.43gr, 14mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Anonymous PB Tessera of Alexandreia, Egypt. Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Bust of Nilus reclining to left, holding cornucopia and bust of Sarapis(?) / Serpent Agathodaemon coiled erect to right, wearing pschent, grain ear, poppies(?) and caduceus in its coils; L Є (date) in upper fields. 3.09gr, 16mm, 10h.
Condition as seen. Extremely rare and apparently the only known.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
