LOT 3096
Phoenicia, Dora AE 24mm. Time of Nero, AD 54-68.
Dated CY 128 (AD 64/5). Pseudo-autonomous issue. Laureate head of Doros to right / ΔധΡΙΤധΝ to right, L PKH (date) to left, Astarte standing facing, head to right, holding standard and cornucopia. RPC I, 4757; Meshorer 17; Rouvier 758. Very Fine.(12.36gr, 24mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd., Auction 86 , 17 December 2023, lot 266.
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Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 31mm of Singara, Mesopotamia. AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Struck AD 243-4. AVTOK K M ANT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CЄB, on left, bust of Gordian, laureate, draped and cuirassed to right, seen from rear, and on right, Tranquillina, draped and wearing stephane to left / AVP CЄΠ KOΛ CINΓAPA, Tyche, turreted and veiled, seated to left on rock, holding ears of corn; above, the Centaur Sagittarius to left, discharging arrow; below, river god swimming to left. RPC VII.2, 3471; cf. BMC Arabia 8-13; SNG Copenhagen 257. 18.52gr, 31mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection. -
Judaea. Procurators, Porcius Festus AE Prutah. 59-62 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Jerusalem mint. In the name of Nero. Dated RY 5 of Nero (58/9 CE). NЄPѠNOC in three lines within wreath / L Є KAIC-APOC, palm branch. RPC I 4972; TJC 345; Hendin GBC 6, 6380; Hendin GBC 5, 1351. 2.20gr, 16mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Thrace, Hadrianopolis AE 19mm. Time of Gordian III, AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Head of Herakles to left / ΑΔΡΙΑ-[Ν]ΟΠΟΛ, Herakles standing facing, head to left, holding club and lion skin. RPC VII.2, 787. 4.32gr, 20mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
