LOT 3445
Hadrian AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm of Smyrna, Ionia. After AD 128.
HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare head to right / COS III, the two Nemeses standing to right and left, facing one another, each holds out a fold of her dress, the one on the left holds a bridle, the other on the right holds cubit rule. RIC 507; RPC III 1361; Metcalf 32. Near Very Fine. Rare.(10.37gr, 28mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceEx Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 58, 20 June 2019, lot 904.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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Judaea. Procurators, Pontius Pilate AE Prutah. Dated RY 16 of Tiberius (29/30 CE). Jerusalem mint. In the names of Julia Augusta (Livia) and Tiberius.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
IOYΛIA KAICAPOC, three bound grain ears / TIBЄPIOY KAICAPOC L Iς (date), simpulum to left. RPC I 4967; Hendin GBC 6, 6370; Hendin GBC 5, 1341; TJC 331. 2.65gr, 16mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Antoninus Pius AE 22mm of Zeugma, Commagene. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡΙ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟC CЄΒ ЄΥC (retrograde), laureate head to left / ΖЄΥΓΜΑΤЄധΝ (Z retrograde), tetrastyle temple; before, colonnaded peribolos containing grove, below, ϶; all in laurel wreath. RPC IV.3 5755 (temporary). 9.84gr, 22mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Trajan AE Dichalkon of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 16 (AD 112/3).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Laureate head to right / Sistrum; across fields, L I-ς (date). RPC III, 4776. 1.84gr, 14mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
