LOT 3497
Philip II AE 27mm of Samosata, Commagene. AD 247-249.
AVTOK K M IOVΛΙ ΦIΛIΠ CЄB, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΦΛ CAMOCATЄѠN MHTP KOM, Tyche seated to left on rocks, with eagle perched on arm; river god swimming to right below. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 8350; Butcher 32; BMC 62-6. Near Very Fine.(12.76gr, 27mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 97, 26 May 2022, lot 771.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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Palmyrene, Palmyra AE 12mm. Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Radiate and draped bust to right (Baalshamin?), wearing kalathos / Radiate and draped bust to left (Malakbel?). Krzyzanowska Type XII; SNG München 522-7. 1.88gr, 12mm, 10h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Procurators, Marcus Ambibulus AE Prutah. Dated RY 39 of Augustus (8/9 CE). Jerusalem mint. In the name of Caesar (Augustus).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Palm tree with dates; L ΛΘ (date) across fields / KAICA-POC, ear of grain curved to the right. RPC II 4955; Meshorer 313; Hendin 6358. 2.16gr, 16mm, 5h.
Very Fine.
London, UK, dealership, 1990s. -
Antoninus Pius AE Hemidrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 11 (AD 147/8).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
ANTധNINOC CЄB [...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / L ЄΝΔ-Є-ΚΑΤΟΥ, Elpis standing to left, holding flower in her right hand and raising skirt with her left. RPC IV.4, 1052 var. (Drachm); Dattari (Savio) 8417 var. (same). 11.92gr, 31mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine. Olive green patina. Apparently unpublished as hemidrachm.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
