LOT 3499
Gallienus BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 12 (AD 264/5).
ΑΥΤ Κ Π ΛΙΚ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / Homonoia seated to left, raising right arm and holding double cornucopiae; palm to right, L ΙΒ (date) in two lines to left. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 75514; Dattari (Savio) 5249; Emmett 3817.12. Near Extremely Fine.(9.46gr, 22mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Severus Alexander BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 5 (AD 225/6).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
A KAI MA AVP CЄV AΛЄZANΔPOC [ЄV], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Tyche reclining to left, on garlanded lectisternium, wearing kalathos and holding rudder; L Є (date) in upper field. RPC VI Online 10306; Dattari 4384; Emmett 3140. 10.57gr, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Phoenicia, Sidon AE 18mm. Dated CY 227 (AD 117). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Wreathed head of young Dionysos to right / ΣΙΔΩΝΟ ΘΕΑΣ, cista mystica; ZKΣ (date) above; all within ivy wreath. RPC III, 3873; Rouvier 1437. 4.93gr, 18mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Philip I, with Otacilia Severa and Philip II AE 29mm of Damascus, Cyrrhestica. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
[IMPP] DD NN PHILIPPIS AV[GG], confronted busts of Philip I, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Philip II, smaller, radiate, draped, and cuirassed, vis à vis / M OTAC SEVER[A AVG], diademed and draped bust of Otacilia Severa to right, resting on a crescent; below, [ram running to right, head to left?]. Cf. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 15988. 13.34gr, 29mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
