LOT 3399
Judaea. Procurators, Porcius Festus AE Prutah. Dated RY 5 of Nero (58/9 CE). Jerusalem mint. In the name of Nero.
[L Є KAIC]-APOC, palm branch / NЄPധNOC in three lines within wreath RPC I, 4972; TJC 345; Hendin GBC 6, 6380; Hendin GBC 5, 1351. Very Fine.(2.62gr, 17mm, 4h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Lydia, Maeonia AE 14mm. Time of Hadrian, AD 117-138. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Laureate and draped bust of Herakles to right / ΜΑΙΟΝΩ[Ν], club and bow in bowcase; above, bee. RPC III, 2428; GRPC Lydia 20; SNG von Aulock 3008. 2.98gr, 14mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla AE 24mm of Caesarea Panias, Trachonitis. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
[...TONЄINOC CЄ[...], laureate head to right / [KAI]CAPIA ΠANIAC, Tyche standing facing, head to right, her left foot on rock, holding rudder and cornucopia; [date across field]. Cf. Sofaer 20; cf. Meshorer, Caesarea 22; cf. SNG ANS 873. 14.33gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Claudius AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm of Ephesus, Ionia. Struck circa AD 41-42.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,680
TI CLAVD CAES AVG, bare head to left / DIAN EPHE, temple of Diana Ephesia: cult statue of Diana of Ephesus with fillets hanging from her wrists, polos on her head within tetrastyle temple, pediment decorated with figures flanking a central table with disk above, two tables and recumbent figures in angles. RPC I 2222 (Cistophoric mint); RSC 30. 11.73gr, 25mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine. Beautiful old cabinet toning with golden iridescence on reverse. Minor oxidations.
From the collection of Georges Müller, numismatist (collector's tickets included).
