LOT 3332
Faustina II AE 20mm of Alia, Phrygia. Struck circa AD 150-161. ΓΑΪΟΣ ΑΣΙΝΙΟΣ ΑΓΡΕΥΣ ΦΙΛΟΠΑΠΠΟΣ (Gaius Asinius Agreus Philopappos), archiereus/asiarch.
ΦΑΥϹΤЄΙΝΑ ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΑ, draped bust to right / ΑΓΡЄΥϹ ΑΡΧΙЄ-ΡΑΤЄ [ΑΛΙΗΝΟΙϹ], Aphrodite standing facing, nude, head to left, covering her breasts with right hand and pudenda with left hand; to left at her feet, uncertain object (column or tree trunk). RPC IV.2 Online 1762; von Aulock Phrygiens I, 78-9; Imhoof-Blumer KM, p. 195, no. 5. Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; only two specimens cited by RPC Online.(4.81gr, 20mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Domitian AE 20mm of Amasia, Pontus. Dated CY 95 (AD 92/3).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
ΑΥΤ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΩ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡ, laureate head to right / ΑΜΑϹϹЄΙΑ ЄΤΟΥϹ Єꟼ (date), turreted and draped bust of Tyche to left. RPC II 1632A; Dalaison 12. 5.92gr, 20mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Extremely rare; the best example among two others recorded by Dalaison and three by RPC Online.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Phrygia, Cotiaeum AE 25mm. Time of Valerian and Gallienus, AD 253-268. ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ, ΑΡΧΩΝ (Diogenes, son of Dionysios), archon.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΔΗΜΟϹ ΚΟΤΙΑ[ΕΩΝ], diademed head of Demos to right / ЄΠΙ ΔΙΟΓЄΝΟ-ΥϹ ΔΙΟΝΥ-ϹI around and in exergue, Α Ρ Χ in right field, Zeus seated to left, holding Nike in right hand and sceptre in left. RPC X Unassigned ID 97769 corr. 8.01gr, 25mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
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 RPC III, 5194; otherwise unpublished. 13.49gr, 23mm, 12h.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 Extremely rare; apparently unpublished with this obverse legend.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.
