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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Titus, as Caesar AE 18mm of Gadara, Decapolis. Dated CY 137 (AD 73/4).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
TITOΣ KA-IΣAP, laureate head right / ΓAΔA-PE-ΩN, crossed cornucopiae; cross between, L ZΛP (date) above. RPC II, 2096; Spijkerman 30; Sofaer 29. 3.66gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Caracalla AE 17mm of Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
[...] M AV ANTΩNIN, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟС ΙCT, six-rayed star within crescent. Cf. Hristova/Jekov 8.18.48.4-7. 2.30gr, 17mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady. -
Trajan AE Diassarion or 2 Assaria of Gabala, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated CE 143 and AE 128 (AD 98).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
AYT NEP KAIC TPAIA CEB ΓEPM, laureate head to right / ΓABAΛEΩN HKP (date) ΓMP (date), Astarte (?) seated to left, holding grain ears and poppy in her right hand and sceptre in her left; at her feet, Sphinx (?) to left. RPC III, 3808. 8.19gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
