LOT 3162
Tiberius AE 19mm of Philippi(?), Macedon. AD 14-37.
[TI] AVG, bare head to right / Two priests ploughing to right with yoke of oxen. RPC I 1657; BMC 89. Very Fine.(3.31gr, 19mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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Elagabalus, with Julia Maesa AE Pentassarion or 5 Assaria of Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior. AD 218-222. ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΣ (Julius Antonius Seleukus), legatus Augusti pro praetore.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
AVT K M AVP ANTΩNEINOC AVΓ IOVΛIA MAECA AVΓ (NE ligate), laureate head of Elagabalus and draped bust of Julia Maesa, wearing stephane, facing one another / VΠ IᏌΛ ANT CEΛEVKOV MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN (ΩΝ ligate), Sarapis standing facing, head to left, holding long sceptre and raising right hand; E (mark of value) in left field. RPC VI, 1434 (temporary); AMNG 937-8; Hristova & Jekov, Marcianopolis 6.28.6.3-4. 13.18gr, 28mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
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Titus AE 24mm of Philadelphia, Decapolis. Dated CY 143 (AD 80/1).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
[AYTO]KPAT[ΩP] TITOC KAI[CAP], laureate head of Titus to right; c/m: head of Herakles (Melkarth), bearded, wearing lion's skin to right, within circular incuse / [ΦIΛAΔEΛΦEΩN], laureate head of Herakles-Domitian to right; [L ΓMP (date)] behind. RPC II 2106; Spijkerman 9; Rosenberger 7; for c/m: Howgego 17. 9.67gr, 24mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Judaea, Legionary Countermarks AE 25mm. Circa 81/2-132/5 CE. Sebaste or Aelia Capitolina mint. Legio X Fretensis issue.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Flavian bust to right / Two c/m's over uncertain host coin: LXF (for Legio X Fretensis) above boar advancing to right within rectangular incuse and galley to right within rectangular incuse. Hendin 1609; for countermarks: Howgego 291 and 409. 10.94gr, 25mm.
Countermarks: Near Very Fine.
From a specialist collection of Judaean coins of a late gentleman collector (collector's and Forum Ancient Coins' ticket included).
