LOT 3473
Galba BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 1 (AD 68).
[ΛΟΥΚ ΛΙΒ] ΣΟΥΛΠ ΓΑΛΒΑ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕB [ΑΥ], laureate head to right; L A (date) in lower right field / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕ[Α], draped bust of Alexandria to right, wearing elephant skin headdress. RPC I, 5326; Köln 217; Dattari (Savio) 298-9; K&G 17.1; Emmett 170.1. Near Very Fine.(8.72gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market, early 2000s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Nero BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 3 (AD 56/57).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
NEP KΛAY KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP AYTO, laureate head to right / ΠΡΟΝ ΝΕΟΥ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ, Nero seated to left, radiate and togate, holding mappa(?) with his extended right hand and vertical sceptre with his left, his feet resting on stool; L Γ (date) to left. RPC I 5203; Köln 121; Dattari (Savio) 200; K&G 14.9 corr. (obv. legend); Emmett 120.3. 6.14gr, 25mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine. Large areas of delamination.
London, UK, art market, 1980s. Private collection, London, UK. -
Claudius AE 12mm of Gadara, Decapolis. Dated CY 108 (AD 44/5).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head of Claudius to right / [ΓΑΔΑΡΑ] ΗΡ (date), crossed cornucopiae. RPC I, 4817; Sofaer 15; Spijkerman 17. 2.60gr, 12mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Trajan AE Assarion of Poemanenum, Mysia. AD 98-117. ΕΓΔΙΚΟΣ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟΣ (Egdikos, son of Fronton), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £107
[ΑΥΤΟ]ΚΡΑΤΟΡΙ ΚΑΙCΑΡΙ CΕΒΑΣΤΟ [...], laureate head to right / ΕΠΙ ΕΓΔΙΚΟΥ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝ[...] ΠΟΙΜΑ, Dionysos standing to left, holding kantharos in right hand, left resting on long thyrsos; at his feet, panther to left. Unpublished in the major references; for a similar example cf. RPC III, 1657. 3.19gr, 17mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; unpublished and apparently unique.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
