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LOT 3209
Valerian I AE Tetrassarion or 4 Assaria of Heliopolis, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 253-260.
IMP CAES P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from behind / COL HLIOP around and CER SAC • CAP OIC • ISE HEL (Colonia Hliopolis Sacra Capitolina Oicumenica Iselastica Heliopolitana) in three lines beneath Nike standing to right vis-à-vis Hermes, standing to left, holding caduceus; both with foot on globe, ear of grain between them and supporting agonistic crown with two palm fronds. RPC X, Online Unassigned ID 88404; Sawaya -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG München -. Very Fine. Very rare; only two specimens cited by RPC Online.(17.55gr, 28mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
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LOT 3209
Valerian I AE Tetrassarion or 4 Assaria of Heliopolis, Seleucis and Pieria.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
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Gallienus AE 28mm of Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Cilicia. AD 253-268.
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ΑV Κ Π ΛΚ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝ-ΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ϹЄΛЄVΚЄΩ ΚΑ- around, ΛV[...]-ΔΝ in field to left, Athena standing to right, holding shield and striking with spear at serpent-legged giant Enceladus, who hurls stone. RPC X Online Unassigned ID 60515. 9.54gr, 28mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Double struck of reverse.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
The reverse type features Athena fighting the giant named Enceladus during the Gigantomachy, the war between the Giants and the gods. This scene appeared in art as early as the sixth century BC on an Attic black-figure pot, and is referenced in Euripides' Ion. Ancient poets located the burial spot of Enceladus under Mount Etna in Sicily, and the volcano's eruptions were said to be the breath of the giant, and the tremors caused by him rolling over under the mountain. (Virgil, Aeneid 3.570-587) -
Caracalla AE Tetrassarion or 4 Assaria of Philippopolis, Thrace. AD 215. Alexandrian and Pythian Games issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
AΥT K M AΥΡ CEV ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head to right / KOINON ΘΡAKΩN AΛEZANΔΡIA EN ΦIΛI-ΠΠOΠO-ΛΙ (ΠΠ ligate) around and in right field, ΠVΘIA in three lines in left field, nude Herakles standing facing, leaning on club to his right and with his lion skin over his left arm. Cf. Varbanov 1494. 17.46gr, 31mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar, AE Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 8 of Antoninus Pius (AD 144/5).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ [ΚΑΙϹΑΡ]. bare-headed and draped bust to right / ΟΜΟ-[ΝΟΙΑ], Homonoia standing to left, holding patera over lighted altar and double cornucopia; L [H] (date) across field. RPC IV.4, 867; Dattari (Savio) 3203. 24.11gr, 34mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
