LOT 3120
Gordian III AE 30mm of Viminacium, Moesia Superior. Dated CY 3 (AD 241/2).
IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / P M S C-OL VIM, Moesia standing facing, head to left, extending hands over bull and lion standing on either side; AN III (date) in exergue. RPC VII.2 20; H&J, Viminacium 8; Varbanov 115. Very Fine.(16.85gr, 30mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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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.
From a UK private collection. -
Macrinus AE 26mm of Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior. AD 217-218. ΣΤΑ. ΛΟΝΓΙΝΟΣ (Statius Longinus), legatus Augusti pro praetore.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
AYT K M OΠEΛΛI CEV [MAKP]EINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / YΠ CT[A ΛONΓINOY NIKOΠ]OΛITΩN ΠPOC I, Apollo standing facing, head to left, holding branch and bow. H&J, Nikopolis 8.23.7.6; AMNG 1735; Varbanov 3435. 11.50gr, 26mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Judaea, Ascalon AE 16mm. Time of Vespasian; dated CY 180 (AD 76-77). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Veiled and turreted bust of Tyche to right / ΠP (date) over AΣ above war galley to right. RPC II 2205; SNG ANS 683-7; Rosenberger 55. 4.36gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
