LOT 3450
Elagabalus AE 28mm of Caesarea, Cappadocia. Dated RY 2 (AD 218/9).
Illegible inscription, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right; c/m: radiate head of Helios / ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΙ, ЄΤ Β (date), agalma of Mount Argaeus placed on inscribed altar, surmounted by three figures. Cf. RPC VI Online 30824. Near Very Fine.(11.33gr, 28mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Trajan AE 16mm of Caesarea, Cappadocia. Dated RY 6(?) (AD 103/4).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
ΟΥΜΒΡΟΣ (Quintus Orfitasius Aufidius Umber), presbeutes and antistrategos. Illegible inscription, laureate head to right / [...]ΜΒΡΟΥ ΕΤ Ϛ(?), agalma of Mount Argaeus. Cf. RPC III, 3137. 3.13gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
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. -
Lucius Verus AE 24mm of Syedra, Cilicia. AD 161-169.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
AV[...], laureate and draped bust to right / CYЄΔPЄധN, Dionysus standing facing, head to left, holding kantharos over panther with right hand and long thyrsus with left. Not in the standard refererences. 8.18gr, 24mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
