LOT 3048
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 284-305.
Dated RY 3 (AD 286/7). Α Κ Γ ΟΥΑ ΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / Tyche standing to left, holding rudder and cornucopia; star in upper left field, ЄTOYC Γ (date) around. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 75978; Dattari (Savio) 5759; Emmett 4082. Good Very Fine.(7.34gr, 18mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Hadrian AE 17mm of Petra, Decapolis. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
ΑΥΤ • ΚΑΙ[Ϲ ΤΡΑ] ΑΔΡΙ ϹЄΒ, laureate head to right / ΠЄΤΡΑ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙϹ in three lines within wreath. RPC III 4103; Spijkerman 12; BMC 10. 3.49gr, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Phoenicia, Dora AE 19mm. Time of Nero, AD 54-68.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Dated CY 130(?) (AD 66/7). Pseudo-autonomous issue. Laureate head of Doros to right / ΔധΡΕ[ΙΤധΝ], Astarte standing facing, head to right, holding signa and cornucopia; [?]ΛP (date) to left. Cf. RPC I 4758; cf. Meshorer, Dora 20. 9.10gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Gallienus AE 28mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 253-268.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £18
ΑV Κ Π ΛΚ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝ-ΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄVΚЄΩ ΚΑ- around, ΛV[...]-ΔΝ in field to left, Athena standing to right, holding shield and striking with spear at serpent-legged giant, who hurls stone. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 60515. 9.54gr, 28mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Double struck of reverse.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
The reverse type features Athena fighting the giant named Enceladus during the Gigantomachy, the war between the Giants and the gods. This scene appeared in art as early as the sixth century BC on an Attic black-figure pot, and is referenced in Euripides' Ion. Ancient poets located the burial spot of Enceladus under Mount Etna in Sicily, and the volcano's eruptions were said to be the breath of the giant, and the tremors caused by him rolling over under the mountain. (Virgil, Aeneid 3.570-587)
