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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Severus Alexander AE 36mm of Smyrna, Ionia. AD 222-235. Marcus Vinicius Polites, strategos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
ΑY Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ϹЄY ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ • ΠΡΩ • ΑϹΙ • Γ ΝЄΩ • Τ-ΩΝ • ϹЄΒ ЄΠ Ϲ • ΠΟΛЄΙΤΟΥ, Cybele seated on throne to left, holding patera and leaning elbow on tympanum; at her feet, lion to left. Cf. RPC VI Online 4680; Klose 3. 21.86gr, 36mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Excessively rare; only one other example cited by RPC Online.
Private collection, France. Private European collection. -
Divus Septimius Severus AE 27mm of Heliopolis, Coele. AD 211-212.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
DIVO SEVERO, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus to right, seen from front / I O M H COL HEL (Iupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus colonia Heliopolitana), aerial perspective view of the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus. RPC V.3 Unassigned ID 84871; Sawaya 403-407. 12.53gr, 27mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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 Unpublished in the major references; for a similar example cf.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 Extremely rare; unpublished and apparently unique.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.
