LOT 2975
Trajan AE Hemiassarion of Sepphoris (Diocaesaraea), Judaea. AD 98-117.
[ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ Α]ΥΤΟΚΡΑ-ΤΩΡ ΕΔΩΚΕΝ, laureate head to right / ΣΕΠΦΩ-ΡΗΝΩΝ, filleted caduceus. RPC III 3938; BMC 12-16; Rosenberger 5; Sofaer 3. Near Very Fine.(4.52gr, 17mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 2975
Trajan AE Hemiassarion of Sepphoris (Diocaesaraea), Judaea.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
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Judaea, Legionary countermarks AE 22mm. Circa 81/2-132/5 CE.
Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Possibly Legio XII Fulminata issue. Flavian(?) bust to right; thunderbolt within rectangular countermark / Blank. For countermark: Howgego 475. 9.09gr, 22mm.
Near Very Fine.
From a specialist collection of Judaean coins of a late gentleman collector.
The thunderbolt countermarks may have been applied for the Legio II Fulminata, but Howgego also suggests that they more likely relate to the cult of Zeus Hypsistos. -
Diocletian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Dated RY 8 (AD 291/2). ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CЄB, laureate head to right / Zeus standing to left, holding patera and sceptre, eagle standing to left; L H (date) across fields. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 76093; Dattari (Savio) 10677. 6.59gr, 20mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Trajan AE 22mm of Aradus, Phoenicia. AD 98-117.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £18
Dated CY 365 (AD 106/7). Laureate head to right / Goddess seated on rudder to left, wearing kalathos, holding end of rudder and cornucopia; to right, Phoenician letter; ΕΞΤ (date) in upper left field, ΑΡΑΔΙΩΝ below. Cf. RPC III 3814. 7.61gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
