LOT 3479
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 9 (AD 292/3).
ΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / Elpis advancing to left, holding flower and raising skirt; L in right field, ЄΝΑΤΟΥ (date) in left field, Δ in exergue. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 76462; Dattari (Savio) 5675; Emmett 4046. Very Fine.(6.99gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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LOT 3479
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt.
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Antoninus Pius AE 15mm of Alexandria, Troas. AD 138-161.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
IMP [...], laureate head to ight / APOLLO-N SMIN[Θ?], nude Apollo Smintheus advancing to left, holding patera and laurel-branch(?). RPC IV.2 Online 142 (temporary); Bellinger A 181. 1.63gr, 15mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Very rare; only three specimens cited by RPC Online.
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.
Estimate: £180 - 240 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
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. -
Julia Domna AE 22mm of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. Dated CY 88 (AD 210/1).
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ ϹЄΒ, draped bust to right; c/m: uncertain / ΛΑΟΔΙΚЄ ΝЄΩΚΟP ΤΟ(ligate) ΠΗ (date), Zeus Aseis standing facing, head to left, raising his right hand and holding the infant Dionysus with his left; goat to left. Cf. SNG Munich 393. 5.73gr, 22mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare type.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
