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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.).
ProvenancePrivate 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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Philip II, as Caesar, AE 26mm of Mesembria, Thrace. AD 244-247.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
MAP IOVΛIOC ΦIΛIΠΠOC KAICAP, bare head of Philip II and draped bust of Serapis wearing kalathos, facing one another / MECAMBPIANΩN, Demeter standing to left, holding patera and long torch. RPC VIII Unassigned ID 48444; Karayotov 476-8. 11.66gr, 26mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Trajan AE As of Antioch, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 102-114.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
AVTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANOC CЄB ΓЄPM ΔAK, laureate head to right / Large S C, A below; all within laurel wreath. RPC III 3583; McAlee 487a; BMC 270. 14.55gr, 27mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Hadrian AR Hemidrachm of Caesarea-Eusebeia, Cappadocia. Dated RY 5(?) (AD 120/1).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / Nike advancing to right, holding wreath and palm; ЄT [Є?] (date) in right field. Cf. RPC II 3076; cf. Sydenham, Caesarea 260. 1.31gr, 15mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
