LOT 2922
Elagabalus BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 218-222.
AVT K M [...] CЄB •, laureate, draped and cuirassed(?) bust to right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠATOC T : B •, eagle standing facing with wings spread, head and tail to left with wreath in beak; star between legs, Δ Є across fields. Cf. Prieur 272; cf. McAlee 763. Good Very Fine.(14.70gr, 27mm, 6h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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LOT 2922
Elagabalus BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Seleucis and Pieria, Chalkis ad Libanon AE 22mm. Circa 85-40 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Ptolemaios, tetrarch. Dated SE 240 (73/2 BC). Laureate head of Zeus to right / The Dioskouroi standing facing, heads turned inward, each holding spear; LMΣ (date) to right. Herman 1; HGC 9, 1439; DCA2 746. 6,72gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Decapolis, Petra AE 13mm. Time of Hadrian, AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche to right / Crossed cornucopiae. RPC III, 4098B; Sofaer 1. 1.41gr, 13mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Gallienus AE 28mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 253-268.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £18
ΑV Κ Π ΛΚ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝ-ΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄVΚЄΩ ΚΑ- around, ΛV[...]-ΔΝ in field to left, Athena standing to right, holding shield and striking with spear at serpent-legged giant, who hurls stone. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 60515. 9.54gr, 28mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Double struck of reverse.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
The reverse type features Athena fighting the giant named Enceladus during the Gigantomachy, the war between the Giants and the gods. This scene appeared in art as early as the sixth century BC on an Attic black-figure pot, and is referenced in Euripides' Ion. Ancient poets located the burial spot of Enceladus under Mount Etna in Sicily, and the volcano's eruptions were said to be the breath of the giant, and the tremors caused by him rolling over under the mountain. (Virgil, Aeneid 3.570-587)
