LOT 3457
Elagabalus AE 20mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 218-222.
AVT KAI M A ANTΩNЄINOC CЄ (or similar), laureate head to right / S•C; Δ Є above, eagle below; all within wreath. Cf. RPC VI Online 8045 (temporary). Near Very Fine.(5.29gr, 20mm, 1h.).
ProvenancePurchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, March 2008.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 100, 28 July 2022, lot 879.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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Marcus Aurelius AE 17mm of Ankyra, Galatia. AD 161-180.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
AVT KAI M ANTΩNIN, laureate head to right / MHTPOΠΟΛEΩC, anchor entwined by serpent. RPC IV.3 Online 4034 (temporary); Arslan -. 4.55gr, 17mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare; only two examples cited by RPC Online.
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. -
Caracalla AE Tetrassarion or 4 Assaria of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 215.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
ΚΥΝΤΙΛΙΑΝΟΣ (Quintilianus), legatus Augusti pro praetore. ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟ•C • ΠΙ-ΟC • ΑVΓΟVCTOC, laureate head to right / VΠ ΚVΝΤΙΛΙΑΝ-ΟV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛIΤ-Ω-Ν, Tyche standing facing, head to left, sacrificing from patera over lighted altar with right hand and holding cornucopia in left. Hristova/Jekov 6.18.36.10a; Varbanov 981. 9.08gr, 26mm, 2h.
Very Fine.
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK.
