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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Palmyrene, Palmyra AE 10mm. Circa 1st-3rd centuries AD. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Helmetted and draped bust of Athena to right / Caduceus between two cornucopiae. De Saulcy -; BMC -; Krzyźanowska, Monnayage de Palmyre -; Lindgren I-; for a similar example cf. Roma, e-118, 791. 1.01gr, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Trajan AE Dichalkon of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 17 (AD 113/4).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Laureate head to right / Hemhem crown, L I-Z (date) below. RPC III 4820; Dattari (Savio) 7221; Emmett 707.17. 1.41gr, 15mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
The Hemhem crown was an ornate triple Atef with corkscrew sheep horns and usually two uraeus. The Egyptian word Hemhem means to shout, cry out, possibly indicating that the Hemhem crown represented a battle horn. -
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.
