LOT 3477
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 2 (AD 285/6).
Α Κ Γ ΟΥΑΛ ΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / Alexandria standing facing, head to left, holding head of Sarapis and sceptre; L B (date) across fields. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 75901; Dattari (Savio) 5622; Emmett 4025. Very Fine.(9.07gr, 21mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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Nero AE Third Assarion of Apollonoshieron, Lydia. AD 54-68.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙCΑΡ CΕΒΑCΤΟC, laureate head to right / ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΕΡΕΙΤΩΝ, Apollo standing facing, holding patera in his right hand and resting his left on lyre set on ground. RPC I, 3045; GRPC Lydia 23; SNG Copenhagen 33; SNG von Aulock 2908. 3.18gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Septimius Severus AE 18mm of Caesarea, Cappadocia. AD 193-211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head to to right / Male figure seated to left on Mount Argaeus, holding branch in his right hand and resting his left on globe. 5.55gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Troas, Alexandria Troas AE 'As'. Time of Trebonianus Gallus to Valerian I, AD 251-260. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
CO ALEX TRO, turreted and draped bust of Tyche to right, with vexillum inscribed CO AV in two lines behind / COL AVG TROADE, Herakles standing facing, head to right, resting his right hand on hip and leaning left on club set on rock; to left, bow and quiver. RPC IX 533 = SNG von Aulock 1464 = Bellinger A484. 4.13gr, 22mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Exceedingly Rare; apparently the second known example.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
