LOT 2801
Judaea, Legionary Countermarks AE 25mm. Circa 81/2-132/5 CE. Sebaste or Aelia Capitolina mint. Legio X Fretensis issue.
Flavian bust to right / Two c/m's over uncertain host coin: LXF (for Legio X Fretensis) above boar advancing to right within rectangular incuse and galley to right within rectangular incuse. Hendin 1609; for countermarks: Howgego 291 and 409. Countermarks: Near Very Fine.(10.94gr, 25mm.).
ProvenanceFrom a specialist collection of Judaean coins of a late gentleman collector (collector's and Forum Ancient Coins' ticket included).
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LOT 2801
Judaea, Legionary Countermarks AE 25mm.
Estimate £180 - 240€210 - 280 (for guidance only)$240 - 320 (for guidance only)
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Carinus BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 2 (AD 283/4).
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Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Trebonianus Gallus AE 30mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 251-253.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Antoninus Pius AE Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 10 (AD 146/7).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Very Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics. Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian.
