Roman Provincial

Lot 2693    SESSION 13 (11.30AM THURSDAY 1ST AUG)    Roman Provincial

Estimate $220
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $300

LYDIA, Saitta, Autonomous, (c.2nd - 3rd Century AD), AE 19mm, (4.07 g), obv. laureate head of Demos right, rev. Herakles standing facing, head left, leaning on club and holding lions skin, (BMC Lydia pg. 214, 12; SNG Cop. -; SNG von Aulock -.) (illustrated); Lydia, Sardis, Germanicus, with Drusus, Caesar, (15 BC-AD 19), AE 26mm (9.50 g), restruck under Asinius Pollio, proconsul, circa AD 28-29(?), obv. togate figures of Germanicus and Drusus seated left on curule chairs, one holding lituus, rev. legend in two lines within wreath, (RPC 2995); third coin, Lydia, Sardes, Faustina senior, wife of Antoninus Pius Bronze (AD 138-161), AE 34mm, (23.13 g), obv. draped bust right, rev. Hexastyle temple with statue of emperor holding Nike. (SNG Cop. -; SNG von Aulock 3154); fourth coin, Lydia, Sardes, Caracalla, (AD 211-217), AE 27, (6.55 g), obv. radiate head right, rev. Hercules advancing right, leading the Cretan Bull by the horns and holding upraised club with left hand, (Stoll 41, BMC 164, M?nsterberg p. 149 [for fuller name and title of magistrate]); fifth coin, Lydia, Tabala, Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar, (AD 139-161), AE 23mm (9.01 g), obv. bare head right, rev. Kybele seated left, holding phiale, resting elbow on drum, (SNG Munich -; SNG Cop. -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC 4); sixth coin, Lydia, Tralles, Geta, as Caesar. (AD 198-209) AE 19mm, (3.06 g), obv. laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind rev. two bulls walking right, (BMC Lydia -; SNG Cop. -; SNG von Aulock -; Weber -; McClean -) (illustrated). Very good - good very fine. (6)

Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, from CNG eSale 126 (lot 193), Nov. 10, 2005, coming from the Garth R. Drewry Collection, bought in August 1973 from A.H. Baldwin & Sons, second coin from CNG eSale 181, (lot 135), Feb. 6, 2008 from the Patrick Villemur Collection; third and fourth coins from M.R. Roberts April 2007 and March 1985; fifth coin CNG eSale 224 (lot 389), Dec. 16, 2009, from the J.P. Righetti Collection No.9699; sixth coin CNG eSale 126, (lot 215) from the Garth R. Drewry Collection.