LOT 3341
Phrygia, Prymnessus AE 25mm. Time of Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
IЄPA • CYN-KΛHTOC, draped bust of the Roman Senate to right / ΠΡVΜΝ-ΗϹϹЄ[ΩΝ], Cybele seated to left on throne, holding her right hand above forepart of lion to left and leaning left on tympanon. RPC V.2 Unassigned ID 27262; Von Aulock, Phrygien II, 895-904. Near Extremely Fine.(7.49gr, 25mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Trajan AE Assarion of Poemanenum, Mysia. AD 98-117. ΕΓΔΙΚΟΣ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟΣ (Egdikos, son of Fronton), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £107
[ΑΥΤΟ]ΚΡΑΤΟΡΙ ΚΑΙCΑΡΙ CΕΒΑΣΤΟ [...], laureate head to right / ΕΠΙ ΕΓΔΙΚΟΥ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝ[...] ΠΟΙΜΑ, Dionysos standing to left, holding kantharos in right hand, left resting on long thyrsos; at his feet, panther to left. Unpublished in the major references; for a similar example cf. RPC III, 1657. 3.19gr, 17mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; unpublished and apparently unique.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
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. -
Hadrian AR Hemidrachm of Caesarea-Eusebeia, Cappadocia. Dated RY 4 (AD 119/120).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹЄΒΑϹΤ, laureate head to right with drapery on left shoulder / Nike advancing to right, holding wreath and palm; ЄT Δ (date) in right field. RPC III, 3074; Sydenham, Caesarea 255; Ganschow 194a. 1.60gr, 14mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
