LOT 3220
Elagabalus AE 29mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 218-222.
IMP CAES M AV ANTONINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right; c/m: bust or Herakles-Melkarth to right / SEPTIM TVRO COLO, Astarte standing facing, turreted, holding long sceptre and resting on trophy on her right, crowned by Nike standing on small column to left, on her left; at her feet, to left, small Marsyas standing to right, carrying wineskin on shoulder and raising hand; to right, murex shell. RPC VI, 8674 (temporary); BMC 390; for countermark: GIG 15. Near Very Fine.(12.96gr, 29mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Julia Domna AE 32mm of Koinon of Cyprus. AD 193-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
ΙΟYΛ ΔOΜΝΑ CEB, draped bust to right / [KOINON KYΠΡΙΩΝ], temple of Paphian Aphrodite within which cone, crescent and star on top of temple, roofed wing on each side within which candelabrum stands, dove on roof of each wing, paved semicircular court before temple. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 90; cf. BMC 56; cf. Tziambazis 29. 17.34gr, 32mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Titus as Caesar, with Agrippa II AE 23mm of Tiberias, Judaea. Dated RY 14 of Agrippa II's second era (AD 73/4).
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
ΑΥΤΟ TI[TOC] KAICAP CЄΒ, laureate head to right / L IΔ (date) BA[...] AΓΡI-ΠΟΥ, Nike advancing to right, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond over her left shoulder. Cf. RPC II 2248; cf. Hendin 1303; cf. Meshorer 138. 14.36gr, 23mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Judaea, Ascalon AE 16mm. Time of Vespasian; dated CY 180 (AD 76-77). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Veiled and turreted bust of Tyche to right / ΠP (date) over AΣ above war galley to right. RPC II 2205; SNG ANS 683-7; Rosenberger 55. 4.36gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
