LOT 3266
Phoenicia, Marathos AE 20mm. Dated Year of the Aradian Era 352 (AD 93/4). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Laureate head of Zeus to right / Double cornucopiae, tied with taenia; to right, BNT (date); to left 'b' in Phoenician. RPC III 3825.4 (this coin); Rouvier 862; ANS 1948.19.2211. Good Very Fine. Extremely rare; only five examples on RPC Online and no other examples on CoinArchives. This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk).(6.42gr, 20mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Julia Domna, Augusta AE Tetrassarion or Four Assaria of Neocaesarea, Pontus. Dated CY 142 (AD 205/6).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
[IOYΛIA ΔOMNA AYΓOYCTA], veiled and draped bust to right, wearing stephane / [KOI ΠON NEOKAI MHTPO or similar], flaming altar within tetrastyle temple, pellet in pediment; ЄT PMR (date; MR ligate) below. RPC V.3, Unassigned ID 85708; cf. Çizmeli 105. 13.02gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Antoninus Pius AE 22mm of Zeugma, Commagene. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡΙ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟC CЄΒ ЄΥC (retrograde), laureate head to left / ΖЄΥΓΜΑΤЄധΝ (Z retrograde), tetrastyle temple; before, colonnaded peribolos containing grove, below, ϶; all in laurel wreath. RPC IV.3 5755 (temporary). 9.84gr, 22mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Elagabalus AE Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Struck possibly AD 219.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AYT K M ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / ΔHMAP[X ЄΞ YΠA] TO B, eagle with spread wings, head and tail to right, standing facing and holding wreath in beak; Δ Є across upper fields; between legs, star. Cf. Prieur 266. 10.87gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
