LOT 3490
Trajan AR Drachm of Bostra(?), Arabia. Struck AD 112.
[ΑVΤΟΚΡ Κ]ΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on left shoulder / [ΔΗΜΑΡΧ] ЄΞ ΙϚ ΥΠΑΤ Ϛ, Arabia standing to left, holding branch in right hand and bundle of cinnamon sticks in left; behind, [camel standing to left]. Cf. RPC III 4073 (Arabian mint); Metcalf, Caesarea 15; Sydenham, Caesarea 184. Near Very Fine.(3.66gr, 19mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Trajan AE Obol of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 11 (AD 107/8).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ [ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ], laureate head to right / Herakles standing facing, head to right, holding club with right hand, lion's skin draped over left arm; L I-A (date) across upper fields. RPC III 4264; Köln -; Dattari (Savio) 915; K&G 27.134; Emmett 679.11 (R5). 4.66gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Hadrian AE Obol of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 11 (AD 126/7).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ CЄB, laureate bust to right, drapery over far shoulder / Stag standing to right; [L IA] (date) across fields. RPC III 5693; Dattari (Savio) 2023; Emmett 1169.11. 5.36gr, 19mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Hints of blue patina.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Palmyrene, Palmyra AE 10mm. Circa 1st-3rd centuries AD. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Helmetted and draped bust of Athena to right / Caduceus between two cornucopiae. De Saulcy -; BMC -; Krzyźanowska, Monnayage de Palmyre -; Lindgren I-; for a similar example cf. Roma, e-118, 791. 1.01gr, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
