LOT 3493
Elagabalus BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 4 (AD 220/1).
Α ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΜΑ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤധΝΙΝΟС ЄVСЄΒ, laureate head to right / Homonoia standing facing, head to left, holding double cornucopiae and raising right hand; L Δ (date) in left field. RPC VI Online 10082; Köln 2328; Dattari (Savio) 4199; Emmett 2937.4. Near Very Fine.(13.17gr, 23mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Hadrian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 4 (AD 119/20).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙC ΤΡΑΙANOC ΑΔΡΙΑNOC ϹЄΒ, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / Agathodaemon serpent, crowned with pschent, erect to right, coiled around caduceus; L Δ (date) to upper left field. For a similar specimen cf. RPC III, 5194; otherwise unpublished. 13.49gr, 23mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished with this obverse legend.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Philip I, with Otacilia Severa and Philip II AE 29mm of Damascus, Cyrrhestica. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
[IMPP] DD NN PHILIPPIS AV[GG], confronted busts of Philip I, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Philip II, smaller, radiate, draped, and cuirassed, vis à vis / M OTAC SEVER[A AVG], diademed and draped bust of Otacilia Severa to right, resting on a crescent; below, [ram running to right, head to left?]. Cf. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 15988. 13.34gr, 29mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Judaea. Procurators, Pontius Pilate AE Prutah. Dated RY 16 of Tiberius (29/30 CE). Jerusalem mint. In the names of Julia Augusta (Livia) and Tiberius.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
[IOYΛIA] KAICAPOC, three bound grain ears / TIBЄPIOY K[AICAPOC L Iς (date)], simpulum to left. RPC I, 4967; Hendin GBC 6, 6370; Hendin GBC 5, 1341; TJC 331. 2.05gr, 17mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
