LOT 3058
Maximian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. First reign, AD 286-305.
Dated RY 7 (AD 291/2). ΜΑΞΙΜΙΑΝΟC CЄΒ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Dikaiosyne standing facing, head to left, holding scales in her right hand and cornucopia in her left; L Z (date) across field, Γ in exergue. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 76447; Geissen -; Dattari 5852. Good Very Fine.(6.64gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Dated RY 8 (AD 291/2). ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CЄB, laureate head to right / Zeus standing to left, holding patera and sceptre, eagle standing to left; L H (date) across fields. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 76093; Dattari (Savio) 10677. 6.59gr, 20mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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. -
Uranius Antoninus AE 30mm of Emesa, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 253-254.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Dated CY 565 (AD 253/4). ΑΥΤΟ Κ ϹΟΥΛΠ ΑΝΤധΝΙΝΟϹ ϹЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / [ЄΜΙϹΩΝ] ΚΟΛΩΝ, temple with six columns enclosing Baetyl of El-Gabal, ornamented with facing eagle, between two umbrellas; crescent on pediment; staircase leading to the stone. ЄΞΦ (date) in exergue. RPC IX 1926; Baldus 36; R. Delbrueck, "Uranius of Emesa," NC (1948), Series I, 2; SNG Hunterian 3174; BMC 24. 20.25gr, 30mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
One of the most famous sacred stones was the Baetyl of Emesa, in Syria. This was a large, black conical stone sacred to the god Ilāh ha-Gabal (“God of the Mountain”), known to the Romans as El-Gabal or Elagabalus.
