LOT 3413
Trajan Decius AE 32mm of Tarsus, Cilicia. AD 249-251.
AY • KAI Γ MЄC • KYIN • ΔЄKI[OC TPAIA]NOC, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear; Π Π (ΠΑΤΗΡ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ) across fields / TAPCOV MHTPO[ΠOΛЄΩC], Herakles standing facing, head to right, holding club in right hand and lion's skin in his left; Α Μ [Κ] Γ Β (ΠΡΩΤΗΣ ΜΕΓΙΣΤΗΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙ or ΓΝΩΜΗ ΒΟΥΛΗΣ) in fields. RPC IX 1356; SNG BnF 1756; SNG Levante 1157; SNG Copenhagen 399. Near Very Fine. Die break on reverse.(20.26gr, 32mm, 6h). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market;
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Commodus BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 177-192.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Uncertain RY 24, 27 or 29 (AD 183-189). M A KOM ANTധ [CЄB ЄV CЄB], laureate head to right / Laureate head of Zeus to right, with traces of drapery; L K[?] (date) across fields. Emmett 2563; cf. Dattari (Savio) 3892. 12.71gr, 24mm, 11h
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman; From Den of Antiquity Int Ltd, dealer's ticket included. -
Philip II AE 26mm of Nisibis, Mesopotamia. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
AYTOK M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB, radiate and cuirassed bust to left, seen from front, wearing balteus / IOΛ(sic) CЄΠ KOΛΩ NЄCIBI M[HT], temple with arched pediment and four columns enclosing draped, veiled and turreted Tyche of Antioch seated facing; above, ram (Aries) leaping to right, head to left; below, river-god Euphrates swimming to right. RPC VIII Online Unassigned ID 2962; BMC Arabia 24; SNG Copenhagen 240. 10.76gr, 26mm, 6h
Near Very Fine - Very Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Hadrian AE Hemidrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. AD 117-138.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Dated RY 15 (AD 130/1). AVT KAI TPAI AΔPIA CЄB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Emperor standing facing, head to left, holding patera over altar and sceptre; L I-E (date) across fields. RPC III 5784; Dattari (Savio) 7523; Emmett 1082. 11.29gr, 29mm, 11h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman; From Den of Antiquity Int Ltd, dealer's ticket included.
