LOT 3467
Nero BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 3 (AD 56/57).
NEP KΛAY KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP AYTO, laureate head to right / ΠΡΟΝ ΝΕΟΥ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ, Nero seated to left, radiate and togate, holding mappa(?) with his extended right hand and vertical sceptre with his left, his feet resting on stool; L Γ (date) to left. RPC I 5203; Köln 121; Dattari (Savio) 200; K&G 14.9 corr. (obv. legend); Emmett 120.3. Near Very Fine. Large areas of delamination.(6.14gr, 25mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceLondon, UK, art market, 1980s.
Private collection, London, UK.
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Commodus AE 22mm of Kyzikos, Mysia. Struck circa AD 188-192.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
[ΑV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡ] ΚΟΜΜΟΔΟС, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [ΚVΖΙΚΗ]-ΝΩΝ, sheep or calf advancing to right. RPC IV.2 Online 731; Lindgren I, 232; BMC 244; SNG von Aulock 1275; SNG Copenhagen 117; SNG BnF 743. 4.14gr, 22mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Hadrian AE 25mm of Dora, Phoenicia. Dated CY 180 (AD 117/8).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
ΑΥΤΟ ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝധ [ΚΑΙС], laureate and cuirassed bust to right / ΔധΡ ΙЄΡ ΑСΥΛ ΑΥ[Τ ΝΑΥΑΡ], laureate head of Doros to right; [aphlaston? befo], [date below]. Cf. RPC III, 3919; cf. Meshorer 37; cf. Sofaer 33. 13.29gr, 25mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nero, with Agrippa II AE 17mm of Caesarea Paneas (as Neronias), Judaea. Struck under Agrippa II, AD 61-68.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
[NEPΩN KAIΣAP ΣEBAΣTOΣ], laureate head to right; [lituus before] / ΕΠI BACIΛE AΓPIΠΠ NEPΩNIE in five lines within circular linear border within laurel wreath. RPC I, 4988; Hendin 6303. 6.04gr, 17mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
