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LOT 3460
Tiberius AE Dupondius of Commagene. AD 19-20.
TI CAESAR DIVI AVGVSTI F AVGVSTVS, laureate head to right / PONT MAXIM COS III IMP VII TR POT XXII, winged caduceus between two crossed cornucopiae. RIC I 90; RPC I 3869; BMCRE 175. Near Very Fine.(17.34gr, 31mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx Roma Numismatics.
Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian.
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Diadumenian, as Caesar BI Tetradrachm of Aelia Capitolina, Judaea. AD 217-218.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
[Μ Ο]Π ΑΝΤധΝ ΚΑΙ, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ, eagle standing facing on thyrsus, head and tail to right, with wings spread and holding wreath in beak; wine jug between legs. RPC V.3 Unassigned ID 83645; Bellinger 360; Meshorer 100; Prieur 1649. 12.30gr, 27mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; only two examples cited on RPC Online.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Trajan AE 28mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 116-117.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΡΙϹΤ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ ΠΑΡΘ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Large S C above BΔ within laurel wreath. RPC III, 3642; McAlee 496(d). 15.27gr, 28mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Tiberius AE Assarion of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. AD 14-37. ΚΟΡ(ΝΗΛΙΟΣ) ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ (Cornelius Dioskourides II), in office for the second time.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΣΕΒΑΣ-ΤΟΣ, bare head of Tiberius (?) to right / ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ ΛAOΔ-IKEΩN, Zeus Laodiceus standing facing, head to left, holding eagle in his right hand and long sceptre in his left; to right, monogram of KOP. RPC I, 2906; BMC 141-2; SNG Copenhagen 547-8. 6.19gr, 20mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Sand patina.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
RPC Online footnote: The monogram, which also occurs on Neronian coins of Aineias (2926-7), has been variously interpreted as standing for coronatus (Ramsay), ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ (BMC) and ΑΡΧΟ (Wa) Κορ(νήλιος) is correct, as it is spelled out in full on coins of another Dioscurides (under Domitian: KM 266, nos 20-1, von Aulock 3845).
