LOT 3456
Elagabalus AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 219.
ΑVΤ•Κ•Μ•Α•••ΑΝΤѠΝЄΙΝΟC CЄΒ, laureate head to right, with slight drapery / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ•ЄΞ•YΠΑΤΟC ΤΟ Β, eagle standing facing with spread wings, head to left, holding wreath in beak; Δ Є across upper fields, star between legs. RPC VI Online 7959 (uncertain mint); McAlee 758; Prieur 249. Near Very Fine.(11.80gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenancePurchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, March 2008.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 104, 15 December 2022, lot 724.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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LOT 3456
Elagabalus AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Diadumenian, as Caesar AE 16mm of Caesarea, Cappadocia. AD 218.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Μ ΟΠ[...]ΔΟΥ K, bareheaded and draped to bust to right, seen from rear / ΜΗΤΡΟ[...], temple with two columns enclosing agalma of Mount Argaeus, ЄT B (date) below. Cf. RPC V.3 Unassigned ID 66823. 5.04gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Lydia, Philadelphia AE 17mm. AD 193-211. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Head of Dionysos to right, wreathed with ivy / ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN, Pan, naked, dancing to left with both arms outstretched. BMC 35; SNG Copenhagen 353; Mionnet IV, 537; GRPC Lydia 87. 2.71gr, 17mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla AE 25mm of Ankyra, Galatia. AD 199-209.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟϹ Α, radiate head to right / ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ ΑΝΚΥΡΑϹ •, Nemesis standing facing, head to left, holding scales and palm branch; to left, wheel. RPC V.3 Online Unassigned ID 72058; Arslan 38 ('Elagabalus') = Arslan 1997, 114 ('Elagabalus') = Arslan, CGK 174 ('Elagabalus'). 8.57gr, 25mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine. Extremely rare; only two examples cited by RPC Online and no other examples on CoinArchives.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
