Lot 3700

Description

Egypt, Alexandria, billon tetradrachms, Claudius II, (268-270 A.D.), rev. eagle left, head to right, year 2 (S.11418); another rev. eagle right, head to left, year 3 (S.11423); Aurelian, (270-275 A.D.), rev. eagle to left, head righ, year 6, (cf.S.11686); another with Vabalathus, head of each both sides year 5, (S.11721); Severina, wife of Aurelian, rev. Victory advancing right, year 7, (S.11716); Probus, (276-282 A.D.), rev. eagle right, head left, year 5, (cf.S.12129); Carinus, (283-285 A.D.), rev. eagle to left, head right between two vexilla, year 1, (cf.S.12380); Maximianus, (286-305 A.D. first reign), rev. Alexandria, turreted standing left, holding head of Sarapis and resting on sceptre, year 4 (S.13342). Mostly fine - very fine. (8)

Ex D.J.Foster Collection and the first previously from a
find at Ceanopis near Alexandria in 1934.