LOT 3119
Judaea. Procurators, Valerius Gratus AE Prutah. 15-26 CE.
Jerusalem mint. In the names of Tiberius and Julia Augusta (Livia). Uncertain date. TIB KAICAP in three lines within wreath / Palm; IOY-Λ[IA L (?) (date)] in two lines across fields. Cf. RPC I 4964 (dated RY 4); cf. Sofaer 26-7 (same). Near Very Fine.(2.35gr, 16mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 3119
Judaea. Procurators, Valerius Gratus AE Prutah.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Caracalla AE Assarion of Parium, Mysia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £47
ANTONINVS PIVS AV, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / C G I H PA, Genius standing facing, head to left, sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar with his right hand and holding cornucopia in his left. SNG Copenhagen 294; SNG BnF 1496; SNG von Aulock 1340. 6.34gr, 22mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Phrygia, Hiearpolis AE 23mm. Time of Philip I, AD 244-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Radiate and draped bust of Apollo Lairbenos to right, ΛAIP-BHNOΣ around / IЄPAΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ around laurel wreath containing ΠΥΘΙΑ in three lines. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 20732; SNG BnF 1260a. 5.75gr, 23mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Judaea, Caesarea Maritima AE 'Minim'. Mid-late 1st-2nd centuries CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Local issue imitating a First Jewish War prutah or a Procuratorial prutah of Valerius Gratus. Illegible legend, amphora / Illegible legend, palm frond. See Meshorer 371 and p. 183-4; cf. Sofaer 1-5. 1.35gr, 13mm.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
