LOT 2780
Nero AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean Era (AD 63/4).
NEPΩN KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ, laureate head to right, wearing archaic aegis / ΕTOYΣ BIP • I, eagle standing to right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; palm branch to right. RPC I 4189; McAlee 265b; Prieur 89. Good Very Fine. Lightly toned.(15.06gr, 26mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Trajan AE 28mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 102-114.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head to right / Large S C, BI (date) below; all within laurel wreath. RPC III, 3595; Wruck 192; CRS 209; McAlee 487(m). 14.43gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Caracalla, as Caesar AE 27mm of Uncertain Mint, Minor Asia. AD 195-198.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Uncertain male deity standing facing, head to left, holding patera(?) with right hand and sceptre with left. 10.56gr, 27mm, 12h.
Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Philip II AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Circa AD 248.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
AYTOK K M IOYΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ΔHMAPX ЄΞOYCIAC ΥΠΑ ΤΟ Δ, eagle standing to left, with spreading wings and holding wreath in beak; ANTIOXIA S C in two lines below. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 28990; McAlee 1043; Prieur 473. 12.86, 26mm, 2h.
Extremely Fine.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group. Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian.
