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LOT 3478
Judaea. Procurators, Porcius Festus AE Prutah. Dated RY 5 of Nero (58/9 CE). Jerusalem mint. In the name of Nero.
NЄPധNOC in three lines within wreath / [L Є KAIC]-APOC, palm branch. RPC I, 4972; TJC 345; Hendin GBC 6, 6380; Hendin GBC 5, 1351. Very Fine.(2.60gr, 18mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Phrygia, Laodicea ad Lycum AE 17mm. Time of Tiberius, circa AD 14-37. ΠΥΘΗΣ ΠΥΘΟΥ, (Pythes, son of Pythes), magistrate. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Laureate head of Apollo to right; [kithara] to left, monogram of ΠΥΘ to right / Headdress of Isis; ΛΑΟΔΙ-ΚΕΩΝ around. RPC I 2905; AMC 1399. 4.17gr, 17mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Antoninus Pius AE 25mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Laureate head to right / Large S C, Θ below; all within laurel wreath. Cf. RPC IV.3 6999 (temporary). 16.21gr, 25mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Severus Alexander AE 20mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 222-235.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
[IMP] CAES M AVΡ SEV ALEXANDER, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [SEP] TVRO METROP COL [PEMIC?], three-quarter view of temple with four columns to right, with stairway; globe in pediment; below, murex shell; Δ above. Cf. RPC VI Online 8698 (temporary); cf. Rouvier 2384 (as Elagabalus). 7.01gr, 20mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine. Rough surfaces.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
