LOT 3472
Judaea. Procurators, Valerius Gratus AE Prutah. Dated RY 5 of Tiberius (18/9 CE). Jerusalem mint.
In the names of Tiberius and Julia Augusta (Livia). TIB KAICAP in three lines within wreath / Palm frond; IOY-ΛIA and [L] Є (date) across field. RPC I 4965; Meshorer 328; Hendin 6368. Very Fine.(2.28gr, 15mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceLondon, UK, dealership, 1990s.
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Nero AE 'Semis' of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Circa AD 65-66.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
IM NER CLAV [CAESAR], laureate head to right / Large S C within circle and laurel wreath. McAlee 289d; RPC I, 4297. 8.19gr, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Judaea. Procurators, Pontius Pilate AE Prutah. Dated RY 16 of Tiberius (29/30 CE). Jerusalem mint. In the names of Julia Augusta (Livia) and Tiberius.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
[IOYΛIA] KAICAPOC, three bound grain ears / TIBЄPIOY KAI[CAPOC L Iς (date)], simpulum to left. RPC I 4967; Hendin GBC 6, 6370; Hendin GBC 5, 1341; TJC 331. 2.03gr, 15mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Elagabalus AE Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Struck possibly AD 219.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AYT K M ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / ΔHMAP[X ЄΞ YΠA] TO B, eagle with spread wings, head and tail to right, standing facing and holding wreath in beak; Δ Є across upper fields; between legs, star. Cf. Prieur 266. 10.87gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
