LOT 3274
Elagabalus BI Tetradrachm of Uncertain Mint, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 218-222.
ΑΥΤ Κ Μ Α [...], laureate bust to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / ΔΗΜΑ[...]ΟϹ ΤΟ Β, eagle standing to right, head and tail to left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; Δ Є flanking head, star between legs. Cf. RPC VI Online 7949 (Uncertain mint); cf. Prieur 249 (Emesan Issues). Near Very Fine.(12.50gr, 24mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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LOT 3274
Elagabalus BI Tetradrachm of Uncertain Mint, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Seleukis and Pieria, Antioch AE Dichalkon. Dated year 25 (7/6 BC). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / ANTIOXEΩN MHTPOΠOΛEΩΣ AYTONOMOY, tripod; E-K (date) across field; all within wreath. RPC I, 4243; McAlee 89. 4.85gr, 17mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Valerian I AE 34mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 253-260.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
ΑΥ Κ ΠΟ ΛΙΚ ΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑΝ-ΟC, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄΥΚ below, ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΚΑ- around, -ΛΥΚΑΔ-ΝΩ in two lines above, draped busts of Artemis-Tyche wearing kalathos, cornucopia over shoulder on right and laureate Apollo on left, facing each other; branch between. RPC X Online unassigned ID 60507. 14.49gr, 34mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Claudius AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm of Ephesus, Ionia. Struck circa AD 41-42.
Estimate: £3,500 - 4,500 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,750
TI CLAVD CAES AVG, bare head to left / DIAN EPHE, temple of Diana Ephesia: cult statue of Diana of Ephesus with fillets hanging from her wrists, polos on her head within tetrastyle temple, pediment decorated with figures flanking a central table with disk above, two tables and recumbent figures in angles. RPC I 2222 (Cistophoric mint); RSC 30. 11.73gr, 25mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine. Beautiful old cabinet toning with golden iridescence on reverse. Minor oxidations.
From the collection of Georges Müller, numismatist (collector's tickets included).
