LOT 2970
Macrinus AE 26mm of Caesarea Maritima, Judaea. AD 217-218.
[...]CRINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / COL FL [...] C CAESAR, Tyche standing facing within tetrastyle temple, holding bust and sceptre, resting foot on harbour-god; small figures between columns. Cf. RPC V.3 Online Unassigned ID 69876; cf. SNG ANS 799; Sofaer -; BMC -. Very Fine. Apparently unpublished variant of a very rare issue of Caesarea Maritima.(12.24gr, 26mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Antoninus Pius AE 35mm of Ephesus, Ionia. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
Lucius Cerrinius Paetus, grammateus. Struck AD 138-140. Τ ΑΙΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΚΑΥϹΤΡOϹ ΚЄΝΧΡЄΙΟϹ around, ЄΠΙ ΠΑΙΤΟΥ ЄΦЄϹΙΩΝ in two lines beneath cult-statue of Artemis Ephesia wearing kalathos and standing facing, with supports, between river-gods Kaystros, on the left, and Kenchrios, on the right, reclining to right and left and facing each other, each resting arm on urn from which water flows. Cf. RPC IV.2 online 1114 (for reverse legend without personal name); Karwiese -. 28.29gr, 35mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Heavily tooled and smoothed. This coin appears to be the Leu Numismatik AG, Web Auction 27, 9 September 2023, lot 1227 (tooled and smoothed since). Otherwise apparently unpublished.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Faustina II AE 20mm of Gadara, Decapolis. AD 147-175.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Dated CY 225 (AD 161/2). ΦΑVϹΤΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ, draped bust to right / ΓΑΔΑ[ΡЄ]-ΩΝ • ЄΚC, diademed and draped bust of Zeus to right. RPC IV.3, 6675 (temporary); Rosenberger 51; Sofaer 44; Spijkerman 49. 6.34gr, 20mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 574, 6 November 2024, lot 265. -
Caracalla AE 29mm of Caesarea, Cappadocia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Dated RY 13 of Septimius Severus (204/5). AY KAI M AYPH ANTധNINOC, laureate head to right / MHTPO[...] around, KOI-NOC above, CЄOYHPIOC Φ[...]-ΛAΔЄΛΦIO[...] ЄT • ΙΓ (date) in three lines below, Mount Argaeus between two agonistic price crowns, each containing palm frond. Cf. RPC V.3 Online Unassigned ID 66752. 16.90gr, 29mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
