LOT 3329
Palmyrene, Palmyra AE 11mm. Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Radiate and draped solar deity to left / Three grain ears; crescent below. De Saulcy 32-3; BM 1931,0603.111. Near Very Fine.(1.52gr, 11mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Septimius Severus AE 28mm of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 193-211. Julius Faustinianus, consular legate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AV K Λ CЄΠTI CЄVHPOC Π, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Y I ΦAYCTINIANO-Y MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩΝ, Homonoia standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia. Varbanov 797. 12.74gr, 28mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Palmyrene, Palmyra AE 14mm. Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Pseudo-autonomomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Draped male bust to left; ΠΑ before / Bull standing to right, head facing; above, sun and crescent. De Saulcy p. 61, 8 var. (confronted busts on obverse); Krzyzanowska -. 1.73gr, 12mm, 10h.
Very Fine. Apparently unpublished and possibly unique.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Lucius Verus AE 30mm of Gesasa, Decapolis. AD 161-169.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΛΟΥΚΙ ΟΥΗ, laureate, [draped and cuirassed?] bust to left / ΑΡΤΕΜΙϹ ΤΥΧΗ [...], Artemis-Tyche advancing to right, drawing arrow from quiver at shoulder and holding bow; at her feet, dog running to right. Cf. RPC IV.3 6597 (temporary); cf. Sofaer 17; cf. Spijkerman 15. 18.20gr, 30mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
