LOT 2641
Pisidia, Antioch AE 16mm. Time of Marcus Aurelius, circa AD 161-180.
Pseudo-autonomous issue. AN-TI-OCH, draped bust of Hermes to right, with head assimilated to portrait of youthful Commodus; caduceus over shoulder / COLO-NIAE, garlanded altar. RPC IV.3, 7376 (temporary). Good Very Fine.(2.06gr, 16mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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Gordian III and Tranquillina AE Pentassarion of Marcianopolis, Moesia. AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Prosius Tertullianus, legatus Augusti pro praetore. Struck AD 241-244. ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑΥ[...], confronted busts of emperor, laureate, draped and cuirassed to right, and empress, diademed and draped to left; ΤΡΑΝΚΥ[ΛΛЄΙΝΑ] in two lines in exergue / [ΥΠ ΤEΡΤ]ΥΛΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤ-ΩΝ(ligate), Homonoia standing to left, holding patera and cornucopiae; E (mark of value) in left field. RPC VII.2, 1440; AMNG 1186. 11.71gr, 25mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Elagabalus AE 33mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 218-222.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
AVT K MAP AVPH ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate head to right / ANTIOXEΩN MHTPO KO, Tyche seated to left on rocks, holding grain ears; river-god Orontes swimming left below, ram running left above, Δ-E and S-C across fields. RPC VI, 30603 (temporary). 17.49gr, 33mm, 6h
Very Fine. Very rare; only one example cited by Roman Provincial Coinage Online.
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Group of Fifteen [15] Mixed Ancient AE Coins. 2nd century BC-4th century AD.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Various rulers and cities. 77gr total.
Near Fine to Good Very Fine.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. From a private collection, Switzerland; thence by descent. From a private collection, since the late 1990s.
