LOT 3030
Marcus Aurelius AE Hemidrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 161-180.
Dated RY 3 (AD 162/3). [M] AYPHΛIOC ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ(Ω inversed) [...], laureate head to right with slight drapery on far shoulder / ЄΥΘΗ-ΝΙΑ, Euthenia standing to left, holding corn ears and cornucopia; L Γ (date) to right. RPC IV.4, 2437 var. (Drachm); Köln 2010 var. (same); Dattari (Savio) 3451 var. (same); Emmett -. Near Very Fine. Apparently unpublished as Hemidrachm.(12.87gr, 31mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Judaea, Caesarea Maritima AE Minim. 1st-3rd centuries CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Turreted head of Tyche to right / Palm tree. Cf. Hamburger 17. 1.65gr, 14mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Philip II AE 22mm of Perge, Pamphylia. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
• AV • K • M • IOV • CЄOV • ΦIΛIΠΠOC • ЄV, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, set on globe / ΠЄPΓAIΩN, chest holding three purses. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 21067; SMG BnF 512. 7.25gr, 22mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Valerian I AE 26mm of Heliopolis, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 253-260.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
IMP CAES P LIC VALERIANVS P AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL IVL AVG FEL HEL, three prize crowns, the central crown containing two palm fronds, those flanking only one; CERT SACR CAP OECV ISE HEL in three lines below. RPC X Online unassigned ID 63822; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen 440; SNG München -. 11.35gr, 26mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
Although the main Pythian Games were held at Apollo's sanctuary at Delphi, many other cities in the east of the Roman Empire periodically held smaller versions of this event. Often such events were associated with other deities, based on the important civic cults of each city. At Heliopolis, the site of a massive temple complex dedicated to Jupiter-Zeus-Baal-Hadad, Venus-Aphrodite-Astarte, and Bacchus-Dionysus, these games were known as the Certamina Sacra Capitolia Oecumenica Iselastica Heliopolitan, as noted on the reverse of the coin.
