LOT 3351
Hadrian AR Hemidrachm of Caesarea-Eusebeia, Cappadocia. Dated RY 4 (AD 119/120).
ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒΑϹΤ, laureate head to right with drapery on left shoulder / Nike advancing to right, holding wreath and palm; ЄT Δ (date) in right field. RPC III, 3074; Sydenham, Caesarea 255; Ganschow 194a. Near Very Fine.(1.60gr, 14mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Tacitus BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 1 (AD 275/6).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Α Κ ΚΛ ΤΑΚΙΤΟC CЄΒ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ЄΤΟΥC Α, Dikaiosyne standing to left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopia in left. RPC X Unassigned ID 75767; Dattari 5515; Emmett 3971.1. 8.12gr, 20mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market, early 2000s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Titus with Agrippa II AE 10 Units of Caesarea Panias, Judaea. Dated RY 30 (AD 78/9).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
AYTOKP TITΩ [KAICAP CEBACTΩ], laureate head to right / ETOY Λ BA AΓPI-ΠΠA, Tyche-Demeter standing to left, wearing kalathos, holding grain ears in right hand and cornucopia in left. RPC II 2294; Meshorer 50. 15.45gr, 27mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Tiberius AE Assarion of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. AD 14-37. ΚΟΡ(ΝΗΛΙΟΣ) ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ (Cornelius Dioskourides II), in office for the second time.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΣΕΒΑΣ-ΤΟΣ, bare head of Tiberius (?) to right / ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ ΛAOΔ-IKEΩN, Zeus Laodiceus standing facing, head to left, holding eagle in his right hand and long sceptre in his left; to right, monogram of KOP. RPC I, 2906; BMC 141-2; SNG Copenhagen 547-8. 6.19gr, 20mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Sand patina.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
RPC Online footnote: The monogram, which also occurs on Neronian coins of Aineias (2926-7), has been variously interpreted as standing for coronatus (Ramsay), ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ (BMC) and ΑΡΧΟ (Wa) Κορ(νήλιος) is correct, as it is spelled out in full on coins of another Dioscurides (under Domitian: KM 266, nos 20-1, von Aulock 3845).
