LOT 2942
Valerian I AE 26mm of Heliopolis, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 253-260.
IMP CAES P LIC VALERIANVS P AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL IVL AVG FEL HEL, three prize crowns, the central crown containing two palm fronds, those flanking only one; CERT SACR CAP OECV ISE HEL in three lines below. RPC X Online unassigned ID 63822; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen 440; SNG München -. Near Very Fine.(11.35gr, 26mm, 12h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection, acquired 1980–1985.
FootnotesAlthough the main Pythian Games were held at Apollo's sanctuary at Delphi, many other cities in the east of the Roman Empire periodically held smaller versions of this event. Often such events were associated with other deities, based on the important civic cults of each city. At Heliopolis, the site of a massive temple complex dedicated to Jupiter-Zeus-Baal-Hadad, Venus-Aphrodite-Astarte, and Bacchus-Dionysus, these games were known as the Certamina Sacra Capitolia Oecumenica Iselastica Heliopolitan, as noted on the reverse of the coin.
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Judaea. Procurators, Pontius Pilate AE Prutah. 26-36 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Jerusalem mint. Dated RY 16 of Tiberius (29/30 CE). In the names of Julia Augusta (Livia) and Tiberius. [IOYΛIA KAICAPOC], three bound grain ears / [TIBЄPIOY] KAICAPOC L Iς (date), simpulum to left. RPC I 4967; Hendin GBC 6, 6370; Hendin GBC 5, 1341; TJC 331. 1.60gr, 15mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Claudius AE 23mm of Berytus, Phoenicia. AD 41-54.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM IMP, bare head to right / COL IVL, founder plowing to right with yoke of oxen. RPC I 4545. 15.31gr, 23mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Philip II, as Caesar BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 244-247.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Struck AD 245. ΜΑΡ ΙΟVΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟC ΚЄCΑΡ, bareheaded and draped bust to right, seen from rear / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞΟVCΙΑC VΠΑ ΤΟ Α, eagle standing to right on palm frond, head and tail to left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; S C in exergue. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 29405; McAlee 1014; Prieur 346. 11.63gr, 25mm, 1h.
Extremely Fine. Minor deposits.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
