LOT 3483
Marcus Aurelius AE 26mm of Abila, Decapolis. Dated CY 225 (AD 161/2).
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙС Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤ ΑΥΓ, laureate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / СE ΑΒΙΛΗΝΩΝ Ι Α Α Γ ΚΟΙ СΥ, nude Heracles seated to left on rock, resting right arm on club, and left arm on rock; ЄΚC (date) in exergue. RPC IV.3 Online 8369 (temporary); Spijkerman -. Near Very Fine. Rare.(13.41gr, 26mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Severus Alexander AE 20mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 222-235.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
[IMP] CAES M AVΡ SEV ALEXANDER, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [SEP] TVRO METROP COL [PEMIC?], three-quarter view of temple with four columns to right, with stairway; globe in pediment; below, murex shell; Δ above. Cf. RPC VI Online 8698 (temporary); cf. Rouvier 2384 (as Elagabalus). 7.01gr, 20mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine. Rough surfaces.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Trajan AE Dichalkon of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 16 (AD 112/3).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Laureate head to right / Sistrum; across fields, L I-ς (date). RPC III, 4776. 1.84gr, 14mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Diadumenian, as Caesar AE Triassarion or 3 Assaria of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 217-218.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Μ ΟΠΕΛΛΙΟΝ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟN Κ (NE ligate), bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟ-ΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Artemis advancing to right, with right hand drawing arrow from quiver on shoulder and holding bow in left; at her feet, hound running to right; in left field, Γ (mark of value). H&J 6.25.13.1; Varbanov 1313. 8.39gr, 25mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex Baldwins, UK. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
