LOT 3507
Probus BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 5 (AD 279/80).
A K M AYP ΠΡOBOC CЄB, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / Eagle standing to left, head to right, wings gathered, holding wreath in beak; L Є (date) across field. RPC X Unassigned ID 75796; Köln 3145; Dattari (Savio) 5553; K&G 112.22; Emmett 3984.5. Good Very Fine.(8.33gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Philip I AE 25mm of Philomelium, Phrygia. AD 244-249. ΜΑΡΚΟΣ ΝΕΣΤΟΡΟΣ (Marcus, son of Nestor), archon.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΙΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟ ϹЄΒ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / ΕΠΙ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ ΝΕϹΤΟΡΟC ΦΙΛΟΜΗΛΕΩΝ, river-god Gallos reclining to left, holding cornucopia and reed with right hand, and resting left elbow on urn from which water flows. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 20688. 7.81gr, 25mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Very rare; only three specimens cited by RPC Online.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Augustus and Agrippa AE Dupondius of Nemausus, Gaul. Circa 9/8-3 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Head of Agrippa to left, wearing rostral crown combined with laureate crown, back to back with head of Augustus to right, wearing oak wreath; IMP above, DIVI F below / Chained crocodile to right, palm frond upwards in centre, wreath to left of palm tip with long ties trailing to right; COL NEM across fields; two palm fronds below. RIC I 158; RPC I 524. 12.72gr, 26mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Vespasian, with Agrippa II AE 8 or 10 Units of Caesarea Panias, Judaea. Dated RY 27 of the first era of Agrippa II (AD 75/6).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £176
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΟΥΕϹΠΑ-ϹΙ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΙ ϹΕΒΑϹΤധ, laureate head to right / Tyche-Demeter standing to left, wearing kalathos, holding grain ears and cornucopia; star to upper left; ETOV KZ (date) BA AΓPI-ΠΠA in two lines across field; macron above BA. RPC II, 2283; Meshorer 166; Hendin 6318; Sofaer 240. 16.89gr, 29mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
