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, Augusta AE 30mm of Serdica, Thrace. AD 193-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
IOVΛIA ΔOMNA CEBA, diademed and draped bust to right / OVΛΠIAC CЄPΔIKHC, Ares standing to right, wearing helmet, holding spear and resting hand on shield. Varbanov -; Moushmov -; Ruzicka -. 16.72gr, 30mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Severus Alexander AE 25mm of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 225-229. ΟΥΜ. ΤΕΡΕΒΕΝΤΙΝΟΣ (Um. Tereventinus), legatus Augusti pro praetore.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AVT K M AVP CEVH ΑΛEΞΑΝΔΡΟC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / HΓ(ligate) ƔM TEPEBENTINOV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙ-T-ΩΝ(ligate), Homonoia, standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia. RPC VI, 1686 (temporary); AMNG 1033-1034; H&J, Marcianopolis 6.32.36.10-13. 10.63gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Commodus AE Diassarion of Gabala, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated CY 233 (AD 186/7).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙCAP Μ ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟN, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to left / ΓΑΒΑΛЄⲰΝ, ΔC ΓΛC KT, on the left, owl standing to right on globe, head facing; on the right, sphinx seated to left on base. BMC 8; RPC IV.3 online 5788. 8.34gr, 26mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
