Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Sale 105    25–27 Mar 2014   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 4094    Session 14 (4.30pm Thu 27th March)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $80

ANCIENT GREEK PROVINCIAL, including Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antiochia ad Orontem, Trajan Decius, (A.D. 249-251 B.C.), billon tetradrachm, (11.09 g), obv. laureate bust right of Trajan Decius, draped and cuirassed as seen from behind, around AVTK **G* MEKU TPAIANOC **D*EKIOC CEB, rev. eagle open wings, head to left with wreath, around, **DHMARC EXOU*CIAC, S C in exergue, (cf.S.4209, Prieur 576); Egypt, Alexandria, Commodus (A.D. 177-192), billon tetradrachm, year 30 = A.D. 189-190, (9.64 g), obv. Commodus laureate head to right, around **M A KOM ANTW* CEB [EVCEB], rev. Selene head to left, to right L **L*, (cf.S.2068, SNG Cop.582, Milne 2686, Koln 2252) (illustrated); other billon tetradrachms of Claudius II and Maximian; a Pontius Pilate, under Tiberius, (A.D. 26-36), copper prutah, (2.06 g), obv. three bound ears of barley, partial legend around, rev. libation ladle (simpulum) traces of legend and date around, date LIS (year 16 = A.D.29), (S.5622, H. 1341) and a Byzantine follis of Justinian I, Nicomedia mint, (S.198). Very good - very fine. (6)

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