LOT 3423
Vespasian, with Agrippa II AE 26mm of Caesarea Panias, Judaea. Dated RY 18 (AD 77/78).
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΟΥΕϹΠ[Α ΚΑΙϹ]ΑΡΙ ϹΕΒΑϹΤധ, laureate head to right / ΕΤΟΥ ΗΙ (date) ΒΑ ΑΓΡΙ-ΠΠΑ, Tyche standing to left, holding grain ears in right hand and cornucopia in left. RPC II, 2254; Meshorer 14; Hendin 6337; Sofaer 195. Near Very Fine.(10.27gr, 26mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 3423
Vespasian, with Agrippa II AE 26mm of Caesarea Panias, Judaea.
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
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Julia Maesa AE 28mm of Caesarea Panias(?), Judaea. AD 218-224/5.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
IOVΛIA MЄCA [...], draped bust to right / Front view of temple with two columns, within which Tyche standing facing, head to left, wearing kalathos, holding cornucopia and rudder, placing foot on galley prow. Cf. RPC VI Online 9204. 15.81gr, 28mm, 1h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Phrygia, Laodikeia ad Lycum AE 15mm. Time of Tiberius, AD 14-37. ΠΥΘΗΣ ΠΥΘΟΥ (Pythes, son of Pythes), magistrate. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ, laureate bust of Apollo to right, lyre before / ΠΥΘΗΣ ΠΥΘΟΥ, altar surmounted by headdress of Isis. RPC I, 2909; SNG Copenhagen 511; BMC 62-3. 2.51gr, 15mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Tiberius AE Assarion of Laodicea ad Lycum, Phrygia. AD 14-37. ΚΟΡ(ΝΗΛΙΟΣ) ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ (Cornelius Dioskourides II), in office for the second time.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ΣΕΒΑΣ-ΤΟΣ, bare head of Tiberius (?) to right / ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΗΣ ΛAOΔ-IKEΩN, Zeus Laodiceus standing facing, head to left, holding eagle in his right hand and long sceptre in his left; to right, monogram of KOP. RPC I, 2906; BMC 141-2; SNG Copenhagen 547-8. 6.19gr, 20mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine. Sand patina.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
RPC Online footnote: The monogram, which also occurs on Neronian coins of Aineias (2926-7), has been variously interpreted as standing for coronatus (Ramsay), ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ (BMC) and ΑΡΧΟ (Wa) Κορ(νήλιος) is correct, as it is spelled out in full on coins of another Dioscurides (under Domitian: KM 266, nos 20-1, von Aulock 3845).
