LOT 3436
Commodus, as Caesar, AE 25mm of Amphipolis, Macedon. AD 166-177.
ΑΥΤΟ Λ ΑV ΚΟΜΟΔΟС ΚΑΙСΑΡ, bareheaded and draped bust to right / ΑΜΦΙΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ, Tyche enthroned to left, holding phiale. RPC IV.1 Online 4243 (temporary); BMC 115. Very Fine. Scarce.(10.65gr, 25mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 71, 28 May 2020, lot 733 (company's ticket included).
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 86, 8 July 2021, lot 724 (company's ticket included).
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 390, 1 February 2017, lot 318 (company's ticket included).
Property of a London antiquarian.
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Antoninus Pius AE 25mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Laureate head to right / Large S C, Θ below; all within laurel wreath. Cf. RPC IV.3 6999 (temporary). 16.21gr, 25mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Macrinus AE 23mm of Parium, Mysia. AD 217-218.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
IMP C M OPE SEV MACRINVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from behind / C G I H PA (Colonia Gemella Julia Hadriana Pariana), Genius standing facing, head to left, holding cornucopia with left hand and patera over lighted altar with right. SNG BnF 1501. 5.86gr, 23mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Vespasian AE Diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 6 (AD 73/4).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΟΥΕΣΠΑ[ΣΙΑΝΟΥ], laureate head to right / Draped bust of Isis to right, wearing taenia and crown of solar disk and horns; L Ϛ (date) to right. RPC II 2442; Dattari (Savio) 385; Köln 299; K&G 20.44; Emmett 217.6. 9.23gr, 26mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
