LOT 3382
Nero AE 23mm of Tripolis, Phoenicia. Dated CY 379 (AD 67/8).
Laureate head of Nero to right; lituus before; c/m: IMP(erator) • G•AL(ba) (IMP and AL ligate) within rectangular incuse / ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤ-ധ[Ν L ΘΟΤ (date)] anticlockwise, jugate heads of the Dioscuri to right. RPC I, 4520; SNG Copenhagen 277; for c/m: Howgego 592. Near Very Fine.(7.74gr, 23mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Poppaea, Augusta AE 16mm of Akmoneia, Phrygia. AD 62. ΣΕΡΟΥΗΝΙΟΣ ΚΑΠΙΤΩΝ ΑΡΧΩΝ and ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΣΕΟΥΗΡΑ (Servenius Capito, Archon and Julia Severa).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑ CΕΒΑCΤH, draped bust of Poppaea to right, wearing wreath of grain ears; on shoulder, lion / CΕΡΟΥΗΝΙΟΥ ΚΑΠΙΤΩΝΟC ΚΑΙ ΙΟΥΛΙΑC CΕΟΥΗΡΑC around, ΑΚΜΟΝΕΩΝ upwards to right, ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧ (ligate) in fields, Artemis standing to right, holding bow in her left hand and drawing arrow with her right from quiver on her back; in field to right, kithara. RPC I, 3175; BMC 48-50; SNG Copenhagen 24. 3.18gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Tiberius AE Assarion of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. AD 14-37. ΚΟΡ(ΝΗΛΙΟΣ) ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ (Cornelius Dioskourides II), in office for the second time.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΣΕΒΑΣ-ΤΟΣ, bare head of Tiberius (?) to right / ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ ΛAOΔ-IKEΩN, Zeus Laodiceus standing facing, head to left, holding eagle in his right hand and long sceptre in his left; to right, monogram of KOP. RPC I, 2906; BMC 141-2; SNG Copenhagen 547-8. 6.19gr, 20mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Sand patina.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
RPC Online footnote: The monogram, which also occurs on Neronian coins of Aineias (2926-7), has been variously interpreted as standing for coronatus (Ramsay), ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ (BMC) and ΑΡΧΟ (Wa) Κορ(νήλιος) is correct, as it is spelled out in full on coins of another Dioscurides (under Domitian: KM 266, nos 20-1, von Aulock 3845). -
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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 K[AICAPOC L Iς (date)], simpulum to left. RPC I, 4967; Hendin GBC 6, 6370; Hendin GBC 5, 1341; TJC 331. 2.05gr, 17mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
