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LOT 2972
Diva Poppaea and Diva Claudia AE 3 Units of Caesarea Panias (Caesarea Philippi), Judaea. Died AD 65 and AD 63.
Struck under Nero, AD 65-68. DIVA POP-PAEA AVG, statue of Diva Poppaea seated to left within distyle temple set on high podium / [DIVA CLAVD] NER F, statue of Diva Claudia standing to left on basis within hexastyle temple set on high podium. RPC I 4846; Meshorer 354; Sofaer 87. Near Very Fine.(7.35gr, 19mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 2972
Diva Poppaea and Diva Claudia AE 3 Units of Caesarea Panias (Caesarea Philippi), Judaea.
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Uranius Antoninus AE 30mm of Emesa, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 253-254.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Dated CY 565 (AD 253/4). ΑΥΤΟ Κ ϹΟΥΛΠ ΑΝΤധΝΙΝΟϹ ϹЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / [ЄΜΙϹΩΝ] ΚΟΛΩΝ, temple with six columns enclosing Baetyl of El-Gabal, ornamented with facing eagle, between two umbrellas; crescent on pediment; staircase leading to the stone. ЄΞΦ (date) in exergue. RPC IX 1926; Baldus 36; R. Delbrueck, "Uranius of Emesa," NC (1948), Series I, 2; SNG Hunterian 3174; BMC 24. 20.25gr, 30mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
One of the most famous sacred stones was the Baetyl of Emesa, in Syria. This was a large, black conical stone sacred to the god Ilāh ha-Gabal (“God of the Mountain”), known to the Romans as El-Gabal or Elagabalus. -
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17
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. 7.73gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Claudius AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm of Ephesus, Ionia. AD 41-54.
Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,667
Struck circa AD 41-42. TI CLAVD CAES AVG, bare head to left / DIAN EPHE, temple of Diana Ephesia: cult statue of Diana of Ephesus with fillets hanging from her wrists, polos on her head within tetrastyle temple, pediment decorated with figures flanking a central table with disk above, two tables and recumbent figures in angles. RPC I 2222 (Cistophoric mint); RSC 30. 11.73gr, 25mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine. Beautiful old cabinet toning with golden iridescence on reverse. Minor oxidations.
From the collection of Georges Müller, numismatist (collector's tickets included).
