LOT 3489
Lucius Verus AE 30mm of Gesasa, Decapolis. AD 161-169.
ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΛΟΥΚΙ ΟΥΗ, laureate, [draped and cuirassed?] bust to left / ΑΡΤΕΜΙϹ ΤΥΧΗ [...], Artemis-Tyche advancing to right, drawing arrow from quiver at shoulder and holding bow; at her feet, dog running to right. Cf. RPC IV.3 6597 (temporary); cf. Sofaer 17; cf. Spijkerman 15. Near Very Fine. Very rare.(18.20gr, 30mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Hadrian AE 20mm of Samosata, Commagene. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
AΔPIANOC CEBACTOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed(?) bust to right / ΦΛA CAMO MHTPO K(M erased)O, written in four lines within wreath. Cf. RPC III 3419. 6.93gr, 20mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Vespasian AE Diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 5 (AD 72/3).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
[ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΥ], laureate head to right / Draped bust of Isis to right, wearing taenia and crown of solar disk and horns; L E (date) to right. RPC II 2438; Köln 296; Dattari (Savio) 384; K&G 20.39; Emmett 217.5. 9.85gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Light green patina.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukis and Pieria, Antioch AE 20mm. Dated year 25 of the Actian Era (7/6 BC). P. Quinctilius Varus, legate. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΟΥΑΡΟΥ, Tyche seated to right on rocky outcropping, holding palm branch; EK (date) to right; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming to right. RPC I 4242; BMC 57; McAlee 85. 6.17gr, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian.
