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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Caracalla AE 29mm of Caesarea, Cappadocia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Dated RY 13 of Septimius Severus (204/5). AY KAI M AYPH ANTധNINOC, laureate head to right / MHTPO[...] around, KOI-NOC above, CЄOYHPIOC Φ[...]-ΛAΔЄΛΦIO[...] ЄT • ΙΓ (date) in three lines below, Mount Argaeus between two agonistic price crowns, each containing palm frond. Cf. RPC V.3 Online Unassigned ID 66752. 16.90gr, 29mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Hadrian AE Dichalkon of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Dated RY 14 (AD 129/30). Laureate head to right, with slight drapery on left shoulder / Three grain ears; L IΔ (date) across fields. RPC III 5766; Dattari (Savio) 7862; Emmett 1176.14; K&G -. 1.29gr, 12mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Domitian, with Agrippa II AE 18mm of Caesarea Panias, Judaea. 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Dated RY 26 (74/5 CE). ΔOMITIANOC [KAICAP], laureate head to right / ETO KS BA [AΓPIΠΠA], Nike standing to right, with foot on helmet, inscribing shield set on knee; to upper right, [star]. RPC II 2279; Hendin 6315a; TJC 165. 7.31gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
