LOT 2805
Judaea, Procurators. Pontius Pilate AE Prutah. Dated RY 17 (30 CE).
Jerusalem. Struck under Tiberius. TIBЄPIOV KAICAPOC, lituus / L IZ (date) within wreath. RPC I 4968; Hendin GBC 6, 6371; Hendin GBC 5, 1342; TJC 333. Near Very Fine.(2.03gr, 15mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Caracalla AE 24mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Struck circa AD 214-217. IMP M AVR ANTONINVS, laureate head of Caracalla to right / SEP TVRVS METRO COLONI, bull standing right before vexillum inscribed LEG III GAL; before, murex shell. AUB 208; BMC 377. 10.29gr, 24mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Gordian III and Tranquillina AE Pentassarion of Marcianopolis, Moesia. AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Prosius Tertullianus, legatus Augusti pro praetore. Struck AD 241-244. ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑΥ[...], confronted busts of emperor, laureate, draped and cuirassed to right, and empress, diademed and draped to left; ΤΡΑΝΚΥ[ΛΛЄΙΝΑ] in two lines in exergue / [ΥΠ ΤEΡΤ]ΥΛΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤ-ΩΝ(ligate), Homonoia standing to left, holding patera and cornucopiae; E (mark of value) in left field. RPC VII.2, 1440; AMNG 1186. 11.71gr, 25mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Trebonianus Gallus AE 35mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 251-253.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
ΑΥ Κ • ΓΑ • ΙΟΥΛΙ ΤΡЄΒΩ ΓΑΛΛΟϹ, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄΥΚ-[Є]ΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΤΩ ΚΑΛ-ΔΝΩ, draped busts of Artemis-Tyche wearing kalathos on right and laureate Apollo on left, facing each other; in front of Apollo, palm branch, behind Artemis-Tyche, cornucopiae. RPC IX 1331; cf. SNG BnF 1051. 21.26gr, 35mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Double struck on reverse.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
