LOT 2951
Hadrian AE 26mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. AD 117-138.
IMP CAES TRAI HADRIANVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL BER in two lines between legionary eagles. RPC III 3856; Rouvier 532; SNG Copenhagen 99-100. Near Very Fine.(10.31gr, 26mm, 12h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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Phoenicia, Sidon AE 21mm. Time of Augustus to Tiberius (27 BC-AD 37).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Struck circa 10 BC-AD 18. Europa on bull to left; ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ and [date] below / Altar before tetrastyle temple with tall podium. Cf. RPC I 4568-71. 6.41gr, 21mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Domitian AE As of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 81-96.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Struck AD 81/3. IMP DOMITI[ANVS CAES AVG], laureate head to left / S C, dot below; all within wreath. RPC II 2023; cf. McAlee 409b. 13.14gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Cilicia, Anazarbus AE 1/4 Assarion. Time of Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Dated CY 180 (AD 160/1). Pseudo-autonomous issue. ANAZAP-BЄ, river-god Pyramos swimming to right / Horse walking to right, ЄT ΠP (date) above and below / RPC IV.3 Online 3636; SNG BN 2032-3; SNG Levante 1394. 1.36gr, 12mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
