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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Philip II BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 247-249.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Struck 248-249. ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟC CЄΒ, radiate head to right / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞΟΥCΙΑC ΥΠΑ ΤΟ Δ, eagle standing to right with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; ANTIOXIA S C in two lines below. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 29174; McAlee 1061 var. (eagle standing to left); Prieur 453. 12.50gr, 26mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Gordian III BI Tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 238-244.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Struck AD 242. AYTOK K M ANT ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC CЄΒ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑ ΤΟ Β; eagle standing facing, head and tail to left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; below, crescent above ram leaping to right, head to left. RPC VII.2 3520; Prieur 302; McAlee 874. 11.94gr, 28mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Valerian I AE 34mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 253-260.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £18
ΑΥ Κ ΠΟ ΛΙΚ ΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑΝ-ΟC, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄΥΚ below, ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΚΑ- around, -ΛΥΚΑΔ-ΝΩ in two lines above, draped busts of Artemis-Tyche wearing kalathos, cornucopia over shoulder on right and laureate Apollo on left, facing each other; branch between. RPC X Online unassigned ID 60507. 14.49gr, 34mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
