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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Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar, AE Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 12 of Antoninus Pius (AD 148/9).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / Isis seated to right, nursing Harpocrates; oinochoe atop short coulmn to right, all within distyle temple façade with uraeus in pediment; L in exergue, ΔധΔЄ-KATOV (date) around. RPC IV.4, 1123; Dattari (Savio) 9066; Geissen 1914; Emmett 1888. 19.99gr, 34mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Gordian III AE Medallion of Odessus, Moesia Inferior. AD 242.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
AYT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AYΓ, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to left, decorated with gorgoneion, raising right hand in salute and holding globe in left / OΔHCCEITΩN, The Great God standing facing, head to left, sacrificing from patera over lighted altar with his right hand and holding cornucopia in his left. RPC VII.2 1497; AMNG I 2314; Varbanov 4444. 30.48gr, 37mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
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Trajan AR Tridrachm of Bostra, Arabia. Struck AD 112-114.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANOC CЄB ΓЄPM ΔAK, laureate head to right, with slight drapery over far shoulder / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ ΥΠATO Ϛ (''tribune of the people, consul for the sixth time''), aquila between two signa; wreath on left signum and hand on right signum. RPC III 4055; Metcalf 9. 9.76gr, 23mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
