LOT 3425
Septimius Severus AE 20mm of Petra, Decapolis. AD 193-211.
AV K CЄΠ CЄOYH CЄ(?), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / AΔPI ΠЄTPA MHT (anticlockwise), Tyche seated on rock to left within distyle shrine with globe in pediment, holding small stele in extended right hand and trophy with left. Sofaer 34 var. (obverse legend); Spijkerman 36 var. (same); cf. Rosenberger 21. Near Very Fine.(6.53gr, 20mm, 11h). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market;
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Gordian III and Tranquillina AE 31mm of Singara, Mesopotamia. AD 238-244.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Struck AD 241-244. AVTOK K M AT(sic) ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPAN[KVΛΛINA CEB, confronted busts of Gordian, laureate, draped and cuirassed on left, and Tranquillina, draped and wearing stephane on right / AVP CEΠ KO-Λ CINΓAPA, Tyche seated to left on rock, holding branch; the centaur Sagittarius above to left, discharging arrow, river god swimming to left below. BMC 13; SNG Copenhagen 257; Lindgren & Kovacs 2627. 22.26gr, 31mm, 6h
Near Very Fine.
From a UK private collection. -
Philip I AE 26mm of Nisibis, Mesopotamia. AD 244-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Struck AD 247-9. ΑΥΤΟΚ • Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹЄΒ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / CЄΠ KOΛΩ NЄCIBI MHT, temple with arched pediment and four columns enclosing draped, veiled and turreted Tyche of Antioch seated facing; above, ram (Aries) leaping to right, head to left; below, river-god Euphrates swimming to right. Unpublished in the major references with this reverse legend, including RPC Online, BMC Arabia, SNG Copenhagen. 11.96gr, 26mm, 1h
Good Very Fine. Apparently unpublished variant with a shorter reverse legend.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Gordian III AE 23mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Struck circa AD 239-241. IMP GORDIANVS AVG COS I, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL IVL AVG FEL BER, Dionysus standing facing, head to left, holding nebris over shoulder, rhyton and thyrsus; at feet, panther standing to left, head to right. RPC VII.2, 3551; BMC 245; SNG Copenhagen 125. 8.86gr, 23mm, 1h
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
