Lot 3499

Description

Asia Minor, Troas, Ilium (Troy), Vespasian with Titus and Domitian (69-79 A.D.), Issued 69-75 A.D., AE 23, 8.48 grams, RPC 893 Bellinger T127 (p.46), BMC 46 (p.63), Obv. Laureate head to r. of Vespasian, Rev. Laureate busts of Titus and Domitian both facing each other, between them statue of Athena standing facing holding spear and resting hand on a shield; Ionia Islands, Samos, Gordian III, (238-244 A.D.), AE 30, 11.59 grams, BMC 297 (p.382), SNG Cop. 1758 (Pl.39) (same dies), SNG Von Aulock 2314 (Pl.71) (same obv. die), Obv. Laureate draped and cuirassed bust to r. of Gordian III, Rev. Tyche standing l. wearing modius, holding rudder and cornucopiae; another Gallienus, (253-268 A.D.) issued 253-260 A.D., AE 30, 14.03 grams, SNG Von Aulock 2332 (Pl.72), SNG Fitz. 4662, Obv. Bust of Gallienus to l. radiate, wearing paludamentum, and armed with spear and shield, Rev. Tetrastyle temple, within which is a cultus statue of Hera of Samos facing (illustrated); Ionia, Smyrna, Tranquillina (Wife of Gordian III) (241-244 A.D.), AE 22, 4.41 grams, SNG Cop. 1403 (Pl.31), Obv. Diademed and draped bust of Tranquillina to r., Rev. Herakles standing naked, holding in r. hand cantharus and on l. arm club and lion skin; another Livia under Tiberius, (14-37 A.D.), issued 29-35 A.D., under P.Petronius Proconsul, 29-35 A.D., AE 20, 4.99 grams, BMC 266-268, SNG Cop. 1338-1339, S.319, Obv. Draped bust of Livia to l., facing the draped bust of the Senate to r., Rev. Tiberius, in priestly robes, standing to l., all within tetrastyle temple; another Lucius Verus, (161-169 A.D.), AE 20, 4.51 grams, Obv. Laureate head of Lucius Verus to r., Rev. Zeus, in priestly robes, standing to l. holding thunderbolt, all within distyle arch of temple, in dotted border; another Faustina Senior (138-141 A.D.), AE 18, 4.83 grams, BMC 344-5 (p.279), SNG Cop. 1368 (Pl.30), S.1532, Obv. Draped bust of Faustina Senior to r., Rev. Amazon Smyrna seated to l., holding patera and resting l. arm on pelta. Fine - very fine, (715,722-3,727-730). (7)