LOT 3119
Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE Dichalkon. Dated year 117(?) of the Caesarean Era (AD 68/9). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Head of Apollo to right, wearing tainia / Laurel branch; ET [Z?]IP (date) around. Cf. RPC I, 4323; cf. McAlee 116(b). Very Fine.(2.89gr, 16mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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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 Unpublished in the major references; for a similar example cf.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 Extremely rare; unpublished and apparently unique.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. -
Julia Maesa AE 28mm of Caesarea Panias(?), Judaea. AD 218-224/5.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
IOVΛIA MЄCA [...], draped bust to right / Front view of temple with two columns, within which Tyche standing facing, head to left, wearing kalathos, holding cornucopia and rudder, placing foot on galley prow. Cf. RPC VI Online 9204. 15.81gr, 28mm, 1h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nerva AE 23mm of Synnada, Phrygia. AD 96-98.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
[...] ΝΕΡΟΥΑϹ [...], laureate head to right / [ΔΙΑ ΠΑΝΔΗΜΟΝ ϹΥΝΝΑΔΕΙϹ?], Zeus Pandemos seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, Nike holding wreath. Cf. RPC III 2618. 9.37gr, 23mm, 11h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Zeus Pandemos was the chief god of Synnada, and his epithet ΠΑΝΔΗΜΟΣ means ''of all the people'' (see the word 'pandemic'), an indication of a form of Zeus associated with the community and popular support.
