LOT 3347
Lucius Verus AE 17mm of Ankyra, Galatia. AD 161-169.
ΑΥΤO Λ OΥΗΡOϹ, laureate head to right / ΑΝΚ-ΥΡΑϹ, eagle standing facing, head to left, with spreading wings, holding wreath in beak. RPC IV.3 Online 9787 = Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, GR 19738 (Ankyra in Phrygia). Near Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; only one example on RPC Online and none on CoinArchives.(4.12gr, 17mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Nero BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 11 (AD 64/5).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
[ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ] ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ, radiate bust to right, wearing aegis / ΑΥ-ΤΟΚΡΑ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt, palm over far wing; L IA (date) in left field. RPC I, 5283; Dattari 270; Emmett 118; Geissen 163. 12.75gr, 23mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Valerian AE 27mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 253-260.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / COL TV-RO METR, Cadmus advancing to right holding spear in left hand and beckoning behind him with right; to left, murex shell. RPC X Unassigned ID 62891 var. (bust and obverse legend). 11.20gr, 27mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Faustina II AE 20mm of Alia, Phrygia. Struck circa AD 150-161. ΓΑΪΟΣ ΑΣΙΝΙΟΣ ΑΓΡΕΥΣ ΦΙΛΟΠΑΠΠΟΣ (Gaius Asinius Agreus Philopappos), archiereus/asiarch.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
ΦΑΥϹΤЄΙΝΑ ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΑ, draped bust to right / ΑΓΡЄΥϹ ΑΡΧΙЄ-ΡΑΤЄ [ΑΛΙΗΝΟΙϹ], Aphrodite standing facing, nude, head to left, covering her breasts with right hand and pudenda with left hand; to left at her feet, uncertain object (column or tree trunk). RPC IV.2 Online 1762; von Aulock Phrygiens I, 78-9; Imhoof-Blumer KM, p. 195, no. 5. 4.81gr, 20mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; only two specimens cited by RPC Online.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
