Lot 2696

Description

Phrygia, Hierapolis, Elagabalus, (AD 218-222), AE 30mm (10.50 g), obv. laureate and cuirassed bust right, rev. Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae, (Johnston, Hierapolis Revisited, in Num.Chron 1984, pg. 67, 22BMC -, SNG Cop. -, SNG von Aulock -) (illustrated); another similar, second coin, AE 23mm (7.13 g), obv. laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind, rev. Demeter standing left, holding grain ears and torch, (BMC p.269, 25, SNG Cop. -, SNG von Aulock -); another third coin, similar, Lucilla, Augusta, (AD 164-182), AE 23mm (9.47 g), obv. diademed and draped bust right, rev. veiled and draped bust of Demeter left, torch before, (SNG Cop. -; SNG von Aulock -, BMC -) (Illustrated); fourth coin from Kibyra, Anonymous issue, (c.AD 160-180), AE 30mm, (15.68 g), obv. laureate head of Demos to right, rev. Serapis seated to left, wearing kalathos, extending hand over Cerberus and long sceptre, (Martin, Demos 6; BMC 35-6; Roma E-Sale 72, lot 403); sixth coin Phrygia, Philomelium, Julia Mamaea, (AD c.222-235), AE 20mm (5.42 g). M. Julius Paulinus, magistrate, obv. diademed and draped bust right, rev. clasped hands,(SNG von Aulock -, SNG Cop. -, BMC --, SNG Munich -); another sixth coin similar AE 34mm, (23.29 g), rev. Severus Alexander on horseback, galloping right, holding spear in right hand (no references noted, cf. Mionnet IV 897 for Severus Alexander). Very good - very fine, mostly rare. (6)

Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, first coin from CNG eSale 138 (lot 150) April 26, 2006; second coin CNG eSale 174 (lot 136), Oct. 10, 2007; third coin, from CNG eSale 183 (lot 134), March 5, 2008; fourth coin, from M.R. Roberts, April 2013; fifth coin CNG eSale 168 (lot 133), July 13, 2007, from the J.S. Wagner Collection; sixth coin from M.R. Roberts April 20, 2008.