LOT 2639
Phrygia, Bria or Briana AE 19mm. Time of the Severans, AD 193-235.
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Draped bust of Serapis to right, wearing kalathos / BΡΙΑ-ΝΩΝ, Isis standing facing, head to left, holding sistrum with right hand and situla with left. Von Aulock, Phrygiens 225-37; SNG von Aulock 3520; BMC 1. Near Very Fine. Edge chipped.(3.38gr, 19mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 545, 30 August 2023, lot 411.
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Caracalla AE 24mm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Struck circa AD 214-217. IMP M AVR ANTONINVS, laureate head of Caracalla to right / SEP TVRVS METRO COLONI, bull standing right before vexillum inscribed LEG III GAL; before, murex shell. AUB 208; BMC 377. 10.29gr, 24mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Augustus AE As of Lepida-Celsa, Spain. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Gaius Pompeius and Gnaeus Domitius, duoviri. Struck circa 5-3 BC. IMP CAESAR • DIVI F AVGVSTVS COS XII, laureate head to right / C V I CEL CN DOMITIO C POMPEIO II VIR, bull standing to right. RPC I, 278. 9.83gr, 29mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Otacilia Severa, Augusta AE 25mm of Nisibis, Mesopotamia. AD 244-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Struck AD 247-249. ΜΑΡ ΩΤΑΚΙΛ ϹЄΟΥΗΡΑΝ ϹЄΒ, draped bust to right, with crescent behind shoulders / ΙΟΥ ϹЄΠ ΚΟΛΩ ΝЄϹΙΒΙ ΜΗΤ, statue of Tyche seated facing, with ram leaping to right above and river-god swimming to right below, within tetrastyle temple with arched pediment. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 2575; BMC 27-32; SNG Copenhagen 244. 11.41gr, 25mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From a UK, private collection.
