LOT 3249
Philip II AE 29mm of Zeugma, Commagene. AD 247-249.
ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹЄΒ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ΖЄΥΓΜΑΤЄΩΝ, tetrastyle temple atop hill, with structures at base of hill and up either side; in exergue, capricorn to right. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 8196; Butcher 31c; SNG Copenhagen 35. Very Fine.(16.88gr, 29mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Tiberius AE 19mm of Philippi(?), Macedon. AD 14-37.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
TI AVG, bare head to right / Two priests ploughing to right with yoke of oxen. RPC I 1657; BMC 89. 5.51gr, 19mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 25mm of Anchialus, Thrace. AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
AYT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ CAB TPANKV[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust Gordian to right, facing draped and diademed bust of Tranquillina to left / OVΛΠIANΩ[...], Tyche-Fortuna standing facing, head to left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder and cornucopia. Cf. RPC VII.2, 1191. 11.76gr, 25mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Circa AD 109.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head to right / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑΤ Є, eagle with spread wings standing facing on club, head to left; to right, palm frond. RPC III, 3532; McAlee 437 (Tyre); Prieur 1494 (Tyre). 13.09gr, 26mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Lightly toned.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
