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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Elagabalus AE 29mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 218-222.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
IMP CAES M AV ANTONINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right; c/m: bust or Herakles-Melkarth to right / SEPTIM TVRO COLO, Astarte standing facing, turreted, holding long sceptre and resting on trophy on her right, crowned by Nike standing on small column to left, on her left; at her feet, to left, small Marsyas standing to right, carrying wineskin on shoulder and raising hand; to right, murex shell. RPC VI, 8674 (temporary); BMC 390; for countermark: GIG 15. 12.96gr, 29mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Tiberius AE 17mm of Philippi(?), Macedon. AD 14-37.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
TI • AVG, bare head to right / Two priests ploughing to right with yoke of oxen. RPC I 1657; BMC 89. 3.49gr, 17mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Seleukis and Pieria, Apameia AE 20mm. Dated SE 293 (20/19 BC). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / AΠAMEΩN THΣ IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY, Nike advancing to left, holding wreath and palm; ΓꟼΣ (date) downwards in inner left field. DCA 413. 6.26gr, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
