LOT 3173
Gallienus AE 28mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 253-268.
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 Enceladus, who hurls stone. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 60515. Good Very Fine. Double struck of reverse.(9.54gr, 28mm, 6h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
FootnotesThe 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)
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Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 31mm of Singara, Mesopotamia. Struck AD 241-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
AVTOK K M AT(sic) ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPAN[KVΛΛINA CEB, confronted busts of Gordian, laureate, draped and cuirassed on left, and Tranquillina, draped and wearing stephane on right / AVP CEΠ KO-Λ CINΓAPA, Tyche seated to left on rock, holding branch; the centaur Sagittarius above to left, discharging arrow, river god swimming to left below. BMC 13; SNG Copenhagen 257; Lindgren & Kovacs 2627. 22.26gr, 31mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
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Lydia, Tabala AE 20mm. Circa AD 190-220. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £22
ΔΗΜΟϹ, head of Demos to right, wearing taenia / ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ, cult statue of Artemis Ephesia facing, with supports. RPC V.2 Unassigned ID 77023; GRPC Lydia 11; Hochard 2351f-k;; Martin Demos Kame xxx. 4.77gr, 20mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
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Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar AE 23mm of Hadrianopolis, Thrace. AD 139-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
ΑVΡΗΛΙΟС ΟVΗΡΟС ΚΑΙСΑΡ, bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, radiate and draped bust of Helios to right. RPC IV online 3915; Jurukova 46-7. 7.85gr, 23mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann), Auction 69, 2 September 2018, lot 214 (company's ticket included). Ex CNG (company's ticket included). Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian.
