LOT 3476
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 2 (AD 285/6).
Α Κ Γ ΟΥΑ ΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ (sic), 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 var. (obv. legend); Dattari (Savio) 5645; Emmett 4033. Very Fine.(8.55gr, 19mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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Judaea, Procurators. Marcus Ambibulus AE Prutah. 9-12 CE. Dated CY 41(?) (10/11 CE).
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Palm tree; L Μ[Α](?) (date) across fields / [KAICA]-POC, grain ear. Cf. RPC II 4957; cf. TJC 315; cf. Sofaer 7; cf. Hendin 1331. 1.94gr, 16mm, 11h.
Good Fine.
Ex Jerusalem collection and Cambridgeshire collection, 1970s. -
Septimius Severus AE Assarion of Gythium, Laconia. AD 193-211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Illegible inscription, laureate head to right / ΓΥ-[ΘЄ]-ΑΤWΝ, Athena standing facing, head to left, holding long spear with her left hand and patera with her right. Cf. Depeyrot Dura Hoard 7363; cf. Bellinger Dura Final report 2127; cf. Froehner 3049b. 4.02gr, 22mm, 4h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla AE Tetrassarion or 4 Assaria of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 215.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
ΚΥΝΤΙΛΙΑΝΟΣ (Quintilianus), legatus Augusti pro praetore. ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟ•C • ΠΙ-ΟC • ΑVΓΟVCTOC, laureate head to right / VΠ ΚVΝΤΙΛΙΑΝ-ΟV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛIΤ-Ω-Ν, Tyche standing facing, head to left, sacrificing from patera over lighted altar with right hand and holding cornucopia in left. Hristova/Jekov 6.18.36.10a; Varbanov 981. 9.08gr, 26mm, 2h.
Very Fine.
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK.
