LOT 4024
Septimius Severus AE 26mm of Elaiussa-Sebaste, Cilicia. AD 193-211.
A[...] CЄY ΠЄP CЄB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right; c/m: cult statue within oval incuse / ϹЄΒΑϹ ΙЄ[...], Zeus seated to left, holding patera and sceptre. RPC V.3 Unassigned ID 84045; for c/m: Howgego 279. Near Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; only one example cited by RPC Online and no other examples on CoinArchives.(8.79gr, 26mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 4024
Septimius Severus AE 26mm of Elaiussa-Sebaste, Cilicia.
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£30 (EUR 35; USD 41) +BP*
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Valerian II, as Caesar AE 20mm of Teos, Ionia. Struck under Valerian I and Gallienus, AD 256-258.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
• ΠΟ • ΛΙΚ • ΟΥΑΛЄΡΙΑΝΟϹ, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from behind / ΤΗΙΩΝ Є-ΙΩΝΩΝ(sic), the poet Anacreon seated to right, playing lyre held on knee. RPC X Unassigned ID 61397; SNG Copenhagen 1536. 3.55gr, 20mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 598, 29 October 2025, lot 313. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. Accompanied by a CNG coin ticket.
Anacreon was born in Teos about 582 BC and gained fame as a lyric poet. He left the city when it was threatened by the Persians circa 545 and subsequently helped to found Abdera in Thrace. He was later the court poet for the tyrant Polykrates of Samos. Upon his death, a statue was erected in the Acropolis in Athens (from CNG footnote). -
Antoninus Pius BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 11 (AD 147/8).
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
[ΑΝΤⲰΝЄΙΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ ЄVϹЄΒ], laureate head to right / L ЄΝ-ΔЄΚΑΤΟV, Apollo Didymeus standing, facing, holding stag and bow. RPC IV.4, 1029; Dattari (Savio) 8085-6; Köln 1562. 7.74gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
London, UK, art market, 1980s. Private collection, London, UK. -
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Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch AE 19mm. Dated year 44 of the Caesarean Era (AD 13/4). Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus, legatus. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Contemporary imitation.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΕΠΙ ΣΙΛΑΝΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΔΜ (date), ram leaping to right, head to left; star above. For prototype cf. RPC I, 4269. 4.56gr, 19mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
