LOT 3214
Severis Alexander, as Caesar, AE 24mm of Raphanea, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 222.
Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ Κ, bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΡЄΦΑΝЄΩΤΩΝ, Genius, wearing kalathos, standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia; eagles flanking, bull at feet. Cf. RPC VI, 8196 (temporary); cf. Nurpetlian, Orontes Valley 24. Near Very Fine.(7.87gr, 24mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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LOT 3214
Severis Alexander, as Caesar, AE 24mm of Raphanea, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Augustus(?) AE 16mm of Philippi(?), Macedon. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
[AVG?], bare head to right / Two founders driving yoke of oxen to right, plowing pomerium. Cf. RPC I 1656; cf. SNG BN 1439-48 (Parium); cf. Varbanov 3770. 3.54gr, 16mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Caracalla AE 30mm of Laodicea ad Mare, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AV GER C M G, laureate head to right / ROMAE, she-wolf standing to right, head to left, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus; FEL in exergue. BMC 91 var. (obverse legend); SNG Copenhagen 365 var. (same). 13.99gr, 30mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Seleukis and Pieria, Antioch AE 18mm. Dated year 177 (AD 128/9). Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΗϹ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕωϹ, head of Zeus to right wearing taenia / ЄT ZOP (date), Boule of Antioch seated to left, dropping voting pebble into urn; B to left. RPC III, 3739; CRS 272; McAlee 126(b). 5.40gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; only three specimens recorded by RPC Online.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
