LOT 3475
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 2 (AD 285/6).
Α Κ Γ ΟΥΑΛ ΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / Dikaiosyne standing facing, head to left, holding scales and cornucopia; L B (date) across fields. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 75911; Dattari (Savio) 5645; Emmett 4033. Very Fine.(7.91gr, 22mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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Diadumenian, as Caesar AE 17mm of Caesarea, Cappadocia. AD 218.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Bareheaded and draped to bust to right, seen from rear / [...] KAICA, temple with two columns enclosing agalma of Mount Argaeus, ЄT B(?) (date) below. Cf. RPC V.3 Unassigned ID 66823. 5.48gr, 17mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Attica, Athens AE 13mm. Circa AD 120-175. Agora Periods VB and C. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Helmeted head of Athena with traces of drapery to right / ΑΘΗΝΑΙ, owl perching to left, in olive-tree; tree entwined by serpent. RPC IV.1 Online 10751 (temporary); Kroll, Agora 225; Svoronos, Athens 89.23. 1.42gr, 13mm, 4h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; only one specimen cited by RPC Online and no other examples on CoinArchives.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Julia Domna, Augusta AE Assarion of Gythium, Laconia. Struck under Septimius Severus, struck AD 202-205.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Illegible inscription, draped bust to right / ΓVΘЄ[ATΩN], statue of Athena at the acropolis of Gythium, helmeted, standing to left, peplos over arms, holding spear with right hand. BCD Peloponnesos -; BCD Peloponnesos II -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; NCP p. 62, 8; for similar reverse cf. Mionnet IV, p. 233, 72 (Geta); E. Papaefthymiou, "Monnaies du Péloponnèse dans la collection de la Fondation du monde hellénique" in BCH139-140.2 (2016), fig. 17; CNG, e-603, 424 (hammer: 650 USD). 3.66gr, 23mm, 3h.
Good Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
