LOT 3329
Phrygia, Aizanis, Psuedo-Autonomous, Time of Claudius AE 16mm. AD 41-54.
AIZANITΩN, draped bust of Artemis right, with arrow over shoulder / ΘЄΩN CVNKΛHTΩN, draped bust of the Senate right. RPC I 3106; BMC 5. Very Fine.(3.51gr, 16mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, private collector.
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LOT 3329
Phrygia, Aizanis, Psuedo-Autonomous, Time of Claudius AE 16mm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Countermarked Roman Provincial AE 28mm. Circa 1st-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Countermark: male imperial head to right within incuse circle / Blank. 6.35gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Caracalla AE 24mm of Caesarea Panias, Trachonitis. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
[...TONЄINOC CЄ[...], laureate head to right / [KAI]CAPIA ΠANIAC, Tyche standing facing, head to right, her left foot on rock, holding rudder and cornucopia; [date across field]. Cf. Sofaer 20; cf. Meshorer, Caesarea 22; cf. SNG ANS 873. 14.33gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Tiberius AE Assarion of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. AD 14-37. ΚΟΡ(ΝΗΛΙΟΣ) ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ (Cornelius Dioskourides II), in office for the second time.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΣΕΒΑΣ-ΤΟΣ, bare head of Tiberius (?) to right / ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ ΛAOΔ-IKEΩN, Zeus Laodiceus standing facing, head to left, holding eagle in his right hand and long sceptre in his left; to right, monogram of KOP. RPC I, 2906; BMC 141-2; SNG Copenhagen 547-8. 6.19gr, 20mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Sand patina.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
RPC Online footnote: The monogram, which also occurs on Neronian coins of Aineias (2926-7), has been variously interpreted as standing for coronatus (Ramsay), ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ (BMC) and ΑΡΧΟ (Wa) Κορ(νήλιος) is correct, as it is spelled out in full on coins of another Dioscurides (under Domitian: KM 266, nos 20-1, von Aulock 3845).
