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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Elagabalus BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 218-222.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Struck AD 219. AYT K M A • • ANTWNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / ΔHMAPX EΞ VΠATOC TO B •, eagle standing facing, head and tail to right, with wreath in beak; Δ Є across upper fields, star between legs. McAlee 761; Prieur 254. 14.11gr, 26mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Claudius AE 23mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. AD 41-54.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM IMP, bare head to right / COL IVL, founder plowing to right with yoke of oxen. RPC I 4545. 15.31gr, 23mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Gordian III BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Struck AD 242. ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC CЄΒ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑ ΤΟ Β, eagle standing facing, head and tail to left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; below, crescent above ram leaping to left, head to right. RPC VII.2 3513; Prieur 295; McAlee 872. 13.92gr, 25mm, 11h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
