LOT 3482
Palmyrene, Palmyra AE 10mm. Circa 1st-3rd centuries AD. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Helmetted and draped bust of Athena to right / Caduceus between two cornucopiae. De Saulcy -; BMC -; Krzyźanowska, Monnayage de Palmyre -; Lindgren I-; for a similar example cf. Roma, e-118, 791. Very Fine. Extremely rare; unpublished.(1.01gr, 10mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Nero AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean Era (AD 63/4).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
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. 15.06gr, 26mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Lightly toned.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Philip II, as Caesar, AE 17mm of Bizya, Thrace. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
M IOYΛ ΦIΛIΠΠOC KAICAP, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / BIZVHNΩN, athlete standing to left, dropping distance marker. Varbanov 1596; Jurukova 159-60. 3.42gr, 17mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine. Very rare.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 62, 17 October 2019, lot 717. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Elagabalus AE Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Struck possibly AD 219.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AYT K M ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / ΔHMAP[X ЄΞ YΠA] TO B, eagle with spread wings, head and tail to right, standing facing and holding wreath in beak; Δ Є across upper fields; between legs, star. Cf. Prieur 266. 10.87gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
