LOT 4000
Valerian II, as Caesar AE 20mm of Teos, Ionia. Struck under Valerian I and Gallienus, AD 256-258.
• ΠΟ • ΛΙΚ • ΟΥΑΛЄΡΙΑΝΟϹ, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from behind / ΤΗΙΩΝ Є-ΙΩΝΩΝ(sic), the poet Anacreon seated to right, playing lyre held on knee. RPC X Unassigned ID 61397; SNG Copenhagen 1536. Very Fine.(3.55gr, 20mm, 8h.).
ProvenanceEx Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 598, 29 October 2025, lot 313.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
Accompanied by a CNG coin ticket.
Anacreon was born in Teos about 582 BC and gained fame as a lyric poet. He left the city when it was threatened by the Persians circa 545 and subsequently helped to found Abdera in Thrace. He was later the court poet for the tyrant Polykrates of Samos. Upon his death, a statue was erected in the Acropolis in Athens (from CNG footnote).
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LOT 4000
Valerian II, as Caesar AE 20mm of Teos, Ionia.
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
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Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
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Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
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Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla AE 24mm of Bruzos, Cilicia. AD 211-217.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
