LOT 3471
Nero BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 13 (AD 66/7).
NEPΩ KΛAV KAIΣ ΣEB ΓEP AV, radiate bust to left, wearing aegis; L IΓ (date) beneath chin / ΣΕBAΣTOΦOPOΣ, galley sailing to right, dolphins below. RPC I, 5296; Dattari (Savio) 264; Emmett 121.13. Near Very Fine.(12.86gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Marcus Aurelius AE 27mm of Adraa, Arabia. Dated CY 70 (AD 175/6).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
[ΑΥΤ] Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΟΝΙΝΟϹ(sic), laureate head to right / ΔΟΥϹΑΡΗϹ ΘЄΟϹ ΑΔΡΑΗΝധΝ Є ΒO (date), dome-shaped baetyl on altar supported by columns; head of ibex to left and right, flight of stairs between columns. RPC IV.3 Online 6721; Rosenberger 2; SNG ANS 1131. 11.29gr, 27mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Philip I, with Otacilia Severa and Philip II AE 29mm of Damascus, Cyrrhestica. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
[IMPP] DD NN PHILIPPIS AV[GG], confronted busts of Philip I, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Philip II, smaller, radiate, draped, and cuirassed, vis à vis / M OTAC SEVER[A AVG], diademed and draped bust of Otacilia Severa to right, resting on a crescent; below, [ram running to right, head to left?]. Cf. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 15988. 13.34gr, 29mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Trajan AE Diassarion or 2 Assaria of Nicopolis ad Lycum, Pontus. Dated CY 42 (AD 112/3).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙC ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ ΤΟ ϚΙ, laureate head to right / [Ν]ЄΙΚΟΠΟ[ΛЄധ]Ϲ [ЄΤΟΥϹ ΜΒ], Nike advancing to right, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond in her left. RPC III, 2942; cf. Dalaison, Nicopolis, 15a. 8.85gr, 25mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
