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)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Marcus Aurelius AE 24mm of Antioch, Pisidia. AD 161-180.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
[ANTONINVS AVGV], laureate head to right / COLO ANTIOC, head of Mên, wearing Phrygian cap, set to left on crescent. Krzyżanowska 141; RPC IV.3 7356. 5.44gr, 24mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla AE 25mm of Attaea, Mysia. AD 198-217.
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
ΑΝΔΡΩΝ (Andron), strategos. AY KAI M AYP ANTΩNEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / CTP ANΔPΩNOC ATTAITΩN, youthful male standing right with foot on rock, facing Demos, standing facing, head left, holding sceptre. AMNG IV 407; SNG BnF 154. 8.41gr, 25mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex CNG, eAuction 494, 23 June 2021, no.308 (company's ticket included). Ex UK private collection. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Titus, with Agrippa II AE 26mm of Caesarea Maritima, Judaea. Dated RY 19 of the second era of Agrippa II (78/9 CE).
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
[ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΤΙΤΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕ]ΒΑϹΤΟϹ, laureate head to right / [ΕΤΟΥ] ΙΘ(date) ΒΑ [ΑΓΡΙ]-ΠΠΑ, Tyche-Demeter standing to left, holding grain ears and cornucopia. RPC II, 2257; Meshorer 145; Hendin 1310; Sofaer 198. 15.34gr, 26mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
London gentleman's collection, 1970-1990s, by descent.
