LOT 3461
Elagabalus AE Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Struck possibly AD 219.
AYT K M ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / ΔHMAP[X ЄΞ YΠA] TO B, eagle with spread wings, head and tail to right, standing facing and holding wreath in beak; Δ Є across upper fields; between legs, star. Cf. Prieur 266. Good Very Fine.(10.87gr, 25mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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LOT 3461
Elagabalus AE Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Nero AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated RY 8 and year 110 of the Caesarean Era (AD 61/2).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
NEPΩNOΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡOΣ [ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟY], laureate bust to right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing to left on thunderbolt, with wings spread; palm branch to left, H over IP (date) to right. RPC I 4182; McAlee 258; Prieur 82. 11.43gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Caracalla AE 31mm of the Koinon of Cyprus. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Radiate, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / 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. RPC V.3, Unassigned ID 69942; cf. Lindgren & Kovacs 1664. 21.99gr, 31mm, 6h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian.
Palea Paphos was one of the most important pilgrimage centres in the Greek world due to its famous Sanctuary of Aphrodite; the goddess herself was born of the sea near Paphos, and floated in on a scallop shell. When she arose, she was hailed as 'Cyprian'. The Sanctuary of Aphrodite continued to flourish well into the Roman era. Several Roman emperors honoured the shrine, and it was visited by Titus in AD 69 when the future emperor was on his way to Egypt; he consulted the oracle of Aphrodite, and was told that he had a great future. The sanctuary was rebuilt by the Romans after the earthquake of AD 76/77, in a design that preserved the layout of the original. The cult of Aphrodite survived at Palea Paphos until the 4th century AD, when emperor Theodosius I outlawed paganism. Today, virtually nothing remains of the Sanctuary save the holy ground itself. -
Trajan AR Drachm of Bostra, Arabia. AD 112-114.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ [...], Arabia standing facing, head to left, holding branch over camel to left at feet and bundle of cinnamon sticks. RPC III 4073-5 (Arabian mint); Metcalf 15-7. 2.99gr, 17mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Nicely toned.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
