LOT 3387
Domitian AE 24mm of Nicomedia, Bithynia. AD 81-96.
ΑΥΤ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ, laureate head to right / Η ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΤΗ(sic) ΒΕΙ, eagle standing to left with wings spread, looking to right and holding wreath in beak. RPC II, 658B. Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; only one example cited by RPC Online and no other examples on CoinArchives.(6.97gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Phrygia, Colossae AE 20mm. Time of Hadrian, AD 117-138. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΚΛΑΥΔΙΑ ΕΥΓΕΝΕΤΟΡΙΑΝΗ (Claudia Eugenetoriane). ΒΟΥΛΗ ΚΟΛΟϹϹΗΝΩΝ, veiled and draped bust of the Boule to right / ΚΛ ЄΥΓЄΝЄΤΟΡΙΑNΗ ΑΝЄΘΗΚЄΝ, Dionysus standing facing, head to left, holding cantharus over panther and long thyrsus. RPC III, 2307F; Von Aulock Phrygiens II, 454 corr. (unclear legends); Martin, Demos, Colossae 4 corr. (reverse legend). 4.92gr, 20mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; only three specimens cited by RPC Online; no other examples on CoinArchives.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
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. -
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.
