LOT 2929
Philip I BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 244-249.
Dated RY 4 (AD 248). ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟC CЄΒ, radiate and cuirassed bust to left, seen from front / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞΟΥCΙΑC ΥΠΑ ΤΟ Δ, eagle standing to right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; ANTIOXIA S C in two lines below. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 29019; McAlee 953c; Prieur 432. Good Very Fine.(12.82gr, 28mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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LOT 2929
Philip I BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Caracalla AE 33mm of Plotinopolis, Thrace. AD 198-217.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
AYT K M AVP CЄVH ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate head to right / ΠΛΩTЄINO-ΠOΛЄITΩN, youthful hero or emperor on horseback to right, holding transverse spear. Moushmov -; Varbanov 1851 var. (bust and obverse legend). 19.05gr, 33mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare and apparently unpublished. Only one other example on CoinArchives (Helios Numismatik, Auction 5, 25 June 2010, lot 582).
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Lucius Verus AE 31mm of Abila, Decapolis. AD 161-169.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Uncertain CY date. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ Λ ΑΥΡ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄ ΑΒΙΛΗΝധΝ Ι Α Α Γ [ΚΟΙ ϹΥ ...], Tyche of Abila, holding sceptre and Nike, standing to right with foot on river-god Heiromax; all within central arch of distyle temple façade; Nike standing on low basis on either side of Tyche. Cf. RPC IV.3, 3892 (temporary) (1 example); Spijkerman -. 18.18gr, 31mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; only one example on RPC Online and none on CoinArchives.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Caracalla AE 22mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
IMP M AVRELI ANTON AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / Poseidon standing to left, foot on rock, holding dolphin and trident; COL ANT BER in fields across fields. SNG Copenhagen 109; BMC 142. 8.04gr, 22mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
