LOT 3323
Severus Alexander AE 36mm of Smyrna, Ionia. AD 222-235. Marcus Vinicius Polites, strategos.
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. Good Very Fine. Excessively rare; only one other example cited by RPC Online.(21.86gr, 36mm, 6h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, France.
Private European collection.
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Macedon, Philippi AE 21mm. Time of Claudius to Nero, circa AD 48-61. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Victory standing to left on base, holding wreath and palm; VIC AVG across fields / COHOR PRAE PHIL, three standards. RPC I, 1651; BMC 23; SNG ANS 675-681; SNG Copenhagen 305. 3.95gr, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Fought between Brutus and his Republican allies against Marc Antony and Octavian in 42 BC, the Battle of Philippi was a decisive victory for the Second Triumvirate but did not end the Civil Wars, which continued for a further twelve years. Dated to the reigns of Claudius or Nero due to the fabric of the issue (copper not being used in Macedon before this time), this coin commemorates the battle and the settlement of veterans from the Praetorian Cohort at Philippi. -
Julia Domna AE Diassarion or 2 Assaria of Cotiaeum, Phrygia. AD 193-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
IOYΛIA CЄBACTH, draped bust to right / KO[TI]-AЄΩN, Athena standing facing, head to left, holding patera in her right hand and long sceptre in her left. SNG Copenhagen 325; BMC 46. 6.00gr, 24mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Septimius Severus AE Tetrassarion or 4 Assaria of Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior. AD 201-203. ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΣ ΓΑΛΛΟΣ (Aurelius Gallus), legatus Augusti pro praetore.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
AV • K • Λ • CЄΠ • CЄVHPOC • ΠE(ligate), laureate head to right / VΠA • AVP • ΓAΛΛOV • NEIKOΠOΛIT • ΠPOC • IC, Septimius Severus riding horse to right, spearing boar below. HH&J, Nicopolis 8.14.34.16; Varbanov 2617 var. (legends). 12.67gr, 27mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
