LOT 3108
Domitian AE 'Sestertius' of Philippopolis, Thrace. Struck AD 88-89.
IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIIII CENS PER P P, laureate head to right / ΦIΛIΠΠOΠOΛEITΩN, City-goddess holding patera and wheat ears standing to left by the river god Hebros, who reclines to right on vase from which water flows, holding long reed in left hand, while another reed grows behind him. RPC II, 351; Mionnet I p. 415, 340; Varbanov 622. Near Very Fine.(23.62gr, 36mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 31mm of Singara, Mesopotamia. Struck AD 241-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
AVTOK K M AT(sic) ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPAN[KVΛΛINA CEB, confronted busts of Gordian, laureate, draped and cuirassed on left, and Tranquillina, draped and wearing stephane on right / AVP CEΠ KO-Λ CINΓAPA, Tyche seated to left on rock, holding branch; the centaur Sagittarius above to left, discharging arrow, river god swimming to left below. BMC 13; SNG Copenhagen 257; Lindgren & Kovacs 2627. 22.26gr, 31mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From a UK private collection. -
Augustus AE 25mm of Uncertain Mint, Asia Minor. Struck circa 25 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Bare head right; c/m’s: TI CAE in incuse rectangle, AVG in incuse rectangle / AVGVSTVS in one line within laurel-wreath. RPC I 2235; RIC I 486 (Ephesus); Howgego 602, 577 (for countermarks). 8.55gr, 25mm, 1h.
Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, gentleman. -
Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Tribunicia Potestas XV Consul V (AD 110/11).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙC ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟC CЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head to right / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΙЄ ΥΠΑΤ Є, eagle, with head and tail to left and wings spread, standing facing on club; palm branch to right. RPC III 3538; McAlee 439 (Tyre); Prieur 1504 (Tyre). 13.38gr, 25mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
