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LOT 2791
Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Dated RY 16 (AD 111/2).
ΑΥΤOΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head of Trajan to right, set on eagle standing to right; to lower left, club / ΔΗΜΑΡX ЄΞ Iς ΥΠΑΤ ς, the Tyche of Antioch seated to right on rocks, holding grain ears and poppy head in her right hand; below to right, river-god Orontes swimming to right, looking back. RPC III, 3543; McAlee 471; Prieur 1499. Near Very Fine.(13.65gr, 26mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Trajan AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. Tr Pot XVII Cos VI (AD 112/3).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙС ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟС СЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head to right, set on eagle standing to right; club below to left / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΙΖ ΥΠΑΤ Ϛ, laureate head of Melkart to right, wearing lion skin headdress. RPC III, 3547; Prieur 1517; McAlee 462. 14.06gr, 24mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Domitian AE 28mm of Antioch, Seleucia and Pieria. AD 74.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
IMP DOMI[TIANVS C]AES AVG, laureate head to right / S C within laurel wreath. RPC II, 2021; McAlee 406. 12.66gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Trebonianus Gallus AE 30mm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 251-253.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Γ ΟΥΙΒ ΤΡЄΒ ΓΑΛΛΟC CЄΒ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ANTIOXЄΩN MHTPO KOΛΩN, cult-statue of Tyche of Antioch seated facing with river-god Orontes at feet within tetrastyle temple façade with arched central bay and conical roof set on ornate base; ram leaping to right above, Δ Є across upper fields, S C in exergue. McAlee 1181; SNG Copenhagen 292. 18.29gr, 30mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
