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LOT 2865
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 5 (AD 288/9).
[...]Λ ΔIOKΛHTIANOC [...], laureate and cuirassed(?) bust to right / Eusebia standing facing, head to left, sprinkling incense over altar on left and holding box; L Є (date) across field. Cf. RPC X Unassigned ID 76026. Good Fine.(7.11gr, 19mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Uncertain male deity standing facing, head to left, holding patera(?) with right hand and sceptre with left. 10.56gr, 27mm, 12h.
Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Trajan AE Diassarion or 2 Assaria of Gabala, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated CE 143 and AE 128 (AD 98).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
AYT NEP KAIC TPAIA CEB ΓEPM, laureate head to right / ΓABAΛEΩN HKP (date) ΓMP (date), Astarte (?) seated to left, holding grain ears and poppy in her right hand and sceptre in her left; at her feet, Sphinx (?) to left. RPC III, 3808. 8.19gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Domitian AE 28mm of Antioch, Seleucia and Pieria. AD 74.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
IMP DOMI[TIANVS C]AES AVG, laureate head to right / S C within laurel wreath. RPC II, 2021; McAlee 406. 12.66gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
