LOT 2961
Phoenicia, Sidon AE 21mm. Time of Augustus to Tiberius (27 BC-AD 37).
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Struck circa 10 BC-AD 18. Europa on bull to left; ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ and [date] below / Altar before tetrastyle temple with tall podium. Cf. RPC I 4568-71. Near Very Fine.(6.41gr, 21mm, 12h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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Judaea, Legionary countermarks AE 22mm. Circa 81/2-132/5 CE.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Possibly Legio XII Fulminata issue. Flavian(?) bust to right; thunderbolt within rectangular countermark / Blank. For countermark: Howgego 475. 9.09gr, 22mm.
Near Very Fine.
From a specialist collection of Judaean coins of a late gentleman collector.
The thunderbolt countermarks may have been applied for the Legio II Fulminata, but Howgego also suggests that they more likely relate to the cult of Zeus Hypsistos. -
Hadrian AE Diobol of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Dated RY 16 (AD 131/2). ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹЄΒ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Isis enthroned to right, crowned with horns and solar disc, suckling the infant Harpokrates, crowned with skhent, holding lotus flower; on back of throne, hawk at each corner; L Iϛ (date) across field. RPC III 5813; Köln 1046 var. (date placement); (Savio) 1749 var. (same); K&G 32.530; Emmett 1138.16. 7.31gr, 24mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Gallienus AE 36mm of Apollonia-Mordiaeum, Pisidia. AD 253-268.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £83
AYT • K • Π • Λ • ΓAΛΛIHNOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / AΠOΛΛΩNI-ATΩN ΛV • ΘPAKO •, river-god Hippophoras reclining to left on overturned vase from which water flows, holding reed in right hand and cornucopia in left. Von Aulock, Pisidien II, 184-206; BMC 7; SNG Copenhagen 100 (same dies); SNG von Aulock 5000 (same dies). 21.09gr, 36mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 109, 27 May 2002, lot 790.
