LOT 3137
Hadrian AE Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 117-138.
Dated RY 19 (AD 134/5). [AVT KAIC TPAIA]N AΔPIANOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / L ЄN-NE[A]KΔ (date), Elpis advancing to left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RPC III 5987; Dattari (Savio) 1689; Milne 1466; Köln 1173-1174. Very Fine.(24.30gr, 34mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceEx Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE 16mm. Time of Nero, AD 54-68.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Dated Year 115 (AD 66/7). Pseudo-autonomous issue. Laureate and draped bust of Apollo to right / ΑΝΤΙΟΧЄ-ΩΝ ΕΙΡ (date), laurel branch; dot below. RPC I, 4306; BMC Phoenicia 90-91; SNG Copenhagen 111. 3.64gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Augustus AE 24mm of Sidon, Phoenicia. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Dated CY 123 (AD 12/13). Laureate head to right, aphlaston before / Bull running to left, upon which sits Europa, who holds her veil and horn of bull; ΣΙΔΩΝ L ΓΚΡ (date) below. RPC -; Rouvier -; BMC Phoenicia -. 7.91gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Apparently unpublished variety.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd., Auction 85, 19 November 2023, lot 218. -
Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 31mm of Singara, Mesopotamia. AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Struck AD 243-4. AVTOK K M ANT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CЄB, on left, bust of Gordian, laureate, draped and cuirassed to right, seen from rear, and on right, Tranquillina, draped and wearing stephane to left / AVP CЄΠ KOΛ CINΓAPA, Tyche, turreted and veiled, seated to left on rock, holding ears of corn; above, the Centaur Sagittarius to left, discharging arrow; below, river god swimming to left. RPC VII.2, 3471; cf. BMC Arabia 8-13; SNG Copenhagen 257. 18.52gr, 31mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection.
