LOT 3085
Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE 21mm. Time of Augustus, 27 BC-AD 14.
Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus, legatus Augusti pro praetore. Dated year 44 of the Actian Era (AD 13/14). Pseudo-autonomous issue. Laureate head of Zeus to right / EΠI ΣIΛANOY ANTIOXEΩN, ram running to right, head to left; star above, ΔM (date) below. RPC I 4269; McAlee 99. Very Fine.(7.14gr, 21mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Phrygia, Hierapolis AE 23mm. Time of Philip I, AD 244-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Homonoia issue with Ephesus. Radiate and draped bust of Apollo Lairbenos to right, ΛAIP-BHNOΣ around / IЄPAΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ Κ ЄΦЄCIΩΝ ΝΕΩ-ΚΟΡΩΝ OMONOIA, clasped hands. RPC VIII Online, Unassigned ID 20751; Franke & Nollé 709; SNG BnF 1263. 6.78gr, 23mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Antoninus Pius AE Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Dated RY 13 (AD 149/150). ΑVΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤധ[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Dikaiosyne seated to left, holding scales and cornucopia; [L] TPICKAIΔ (date) around. RPC IV.4 Online 1190 (temporary); Köln 1634; Dattari (Savio) 8388-9; K&G 35.471; Emmett 1489.13. 27.56gr, 33mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Beautiful reddish-brown patina with touches of green.
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Phrygia, Hiearpolis AE 23mm. Time of Philip I, AD 244-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Radiate and draped bust of Apollo Lairbenos to right, ΛAIP-BHNOΣ around / IЄPAΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ around laurel wreath containing ΠΥΘΙΑ in three lines. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 20732; SNG BnF 1260a. 5.75gr, 23mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
