LOT 3438
Gordian III AE As. AD 243-244. Rome mint.
IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VICTORIA AETER, Victory standing facing, head to left, resting right hand on grounded shield set on a mourning captive seated to left, and holding palm in left; S C across field. RIC IV 337b; Cohen 352. Near Very Fine. Very rare Gordian's As of the fifth (final) issue at Rome.(10.24gr, 24mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Caracalla AE 17mm of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 215.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟC ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟC, laureate head to right / MAPKIANOΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, lion standing to left. Varbanov 909 var. (obverse legend and lion to right); otherwise apparently unpublished. 2.28gr, 17mm, 8h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Seleukis and Pieria, Antioch AE 18mm. Dated year 177 (AD 128/9). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΗϹ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕωϹ, head of Zeus to right wearing taenia / ЄT ZOP (date), Boule of Antioch seated to left, dropping voting pebble into urn; B to left. RPC III, 3739; CRS 272; McAlee 126(b). 5.40gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; only three specimens recorded by RPC Online.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Aurelian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 5 (AD 273/4).
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £111
A K Λ ΔOM AVPHΛIANOC CЄB, laureate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / L Є (date) within laurel wreath. RPC X Unassigned ID 75716; Köln 3089; Dattari (Savio) 5469; K&G 106.49; Emmett 3961.5. 10.39gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a UK gallery.
