LOT 2811
Philip II AE 26mm of Nisibis, Mesopotamia. AD 247-249.
AYTOK M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB, radiate and cuirassed bust to left / IOY CЄΠ KOΛΩ NЄCIBI MHT, Tyche of Antioch seated facing; above, ram (Aries) leaping to right, head to left; all within tetrastyle shrine; below, river-god Euphrates swimming to right. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 2962; SNG Copenhagen 240. Very Fine.(9.04gr, 26mm, 6h.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK, private collection.
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Caracalla AE 24mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Struck circa AD 214-217. IMP M AVR ANTONINVS, laureate head of Caracalla to right / SEP TVRVS METRO COLONI, bull standing right before vexillum inscribed LEG III GAL; before, murex shell. AUB 208; BMC 377. 10.29gr, 24mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Caracalla AE Medallion of Sardeis, Lydia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ ΟΥΕΤΤΗΝΙΑΝΟΣ, ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΣ KAI ΑΣΙΑΡΧΗΣ (Loukios Kornelios Vettenianos, strategos and asiarch). Struck AD 211-217. N A M AMATNYNЄINO (sic), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / KOP OYETTHNIAN M AP NYONVS VIΓΑΟΥ Κ ΜΟ (sic) around, XPY-CANΘIN[A C]APΔIA-NΩN [...blundered insciption] in six lines within laurel wreath. For another example with similar legends cf. GRPC 523. 19.02gr, 35mm, 5h.
Very Fine. Apparently the only known example with these legends.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Augustus AE As of Emerita, Spain. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Struck 23-2 BC. PERMISSV CAESARIS AVGVSTI, facing head of Silenos, amphora pouring water below / Priest plowing to left with pair of oxen; AVGVS[TA] above, EMERITA below. RPC I 11; ACIP 3373. 11.62gr, 27mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex UK private collection.
