LOT 3098
Gallienus AE 30mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 253-268.
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AV, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / COL TV-RO ME, shrine with four columns and arcuated lintel; within, bust of Astarte to right; below, two carrying-poles projecting from front of base and murex shell. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 86131 corr. (bust not draped); BMC Phoenicia 478; Rouvier 2522 var. (laureate bust). Near Very Fine. Very rare; only two examples on RPC Online and none on CoinArchives.(14.19gr, 30mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Julia Paula AE Assarion of Parium, Mysia. AD 219-220.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £47
IVLIA PAVLA AVG, diademed and draped bust of Julia Paula to right / C G I H P, capricorn to right, bearing cornucopia on its back and with globe between its forelegs. RPC VI online 3858; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG BnF -; SNG von Aulock -. 6.44gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
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Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE Trichalkon. Time of Nero, AD 54-68.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Q. Ummidius Durmius Quadratus, legatus Augusti pro praetore. Dated year 105 of the Caesarean Era (AD 56/7). Pseudo-autonomous issue. ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ, turreted, draped, and veiled bust of Tyche to right / ΕΠΙ ΚΟΥΑΔΡΑΤΟΥ, ram leaping to right, head to left; star within crescent above, ET EP (date) below. RPC I 4290; McAlee 102. 5.25gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. Ex property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 98-117.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Struck AD 116/7. ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑͶΟϹ ΑΡΙ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ • ΔΑ • Κ ΠΑΡΘ, laureate head of Trajan to right, set on eagle standing to right; club to left / • ΔHMAPX • [...], laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules to right, wearing lion skin around neck. Cf. RPC III 3562; cf. McAlee 467 (Tyre); cf. Prieur 1522 (Tyre). 13.49gr, 25mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
