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LOT 3101
Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar AE 23mm of Hadrianopolis, Thrace. AD 139-161.
ΑVΡΗΛΙΟС ΟVΗΡΟС ΚΑΙСΑΡ, bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, radiate and draped bust of Helios to right. RPC IV online 3915; Jurukova 46-7. Very Fine.(7.85gr, 23mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceEx Numismatik Naumann (formerly Gitbud & Naumann), Auction 69, 2 September 2018, lot 214 (company's ticket included).
Ex CNG (company's ticket included).
Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian.
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LOT 3101
Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar AE 23mm of Hadrianopolis, Thrace.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
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Diadumenian, as Caesar, AE 15mm of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 217-218.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
M OΠEΛΛIOC ANTΩNINOC, bare-headed cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / MAPKIANOΠOΛEITΩN, crescent and three stars. Varbanov 1320. 2.88gr, 15mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Gallienus AE 28mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
ΑV Κ Π ΛΚ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝ-ΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄVΚЄΩ ΚΑ- around, ΛV[...]-ΔΝ in field to left, Athena standing to right, holding shield and striking with spear at serpent-legged giant Enceladus, who hurls stone. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 60515. 9.54gr, 28mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Double struck of reverse.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
The reverse type features Athena fighting the giant named Enceladus during the Gigantomachy, the war between the Giants and the gods. This scene appeared in art as early as the sixth century BC on an Attic black-figure pot, and is referenced in Euripides' Ion. Ancient poets located the burial spot of Enceladus under Mount Etna in Sicily, and the volcano's eruptions were said to be the breath of the giant, and the tremors caused by him rolling over under the mountain. (Virgil, Aeneid 3.570-587) -
Augustus(?) AE 16mm of Philippi(?), Macedon. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
[AVG?], bare head to right / Two founders driving yoke of oxen to right, plowing pomerium. Cf. RPC I 1656; cf. SNG BN 1439-48 (Parium); cf. Varbanov 3770. 3.54gr, 16mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
