Roman Provincial
Lot 2718 SESSION 13 (11.30AM THURSDAY 1ST AUG) Roman Provincial
Estimate $200
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SOLD $190
CILICIA, Tarsus, Gordian III, (AD 238-244), AE 35mm (23.59 g), obv. radiate and cuirassed bust right, rev. Herakles holding club and lion skin, (not in published references); another similar, AE 39mm, (30.28 g), obv. laureate, cuirassed bust right, rev. Gordian standing left holding patera over altar, (SNG France 1689, SNG Levante -); third coin similar, AE 38mm, (30.58 g), obv. radiate draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. Tyche panthea standing left holding rudder on globe and cornucopiae, (cf.SNG Levante 113, cf.SNG France 1695) (illustrated); others (2) worn AE from Mastaura in Lydia, and Tarsus, Cilicia of Trajan Decius. Fair - fine, all scarce. (5)
Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, first coin from CNG eSale 117 (lot 138), June 30, 2005, from Garth R. Drewry Collection, previously from Paramount 7-8 January 1977; second coin, from CNG eSale 117 (lot 139) June 30, 2005 from the Garth R. Drewry Collection and Antioch Associates Sale 43 (lot 43), January 6, 2003; third coin, from CNG eSale 112 (lot 144), April 18, 2005, from Garth R. Drewry Collection, previously from Coin Galleries April 29, 1976 (lot 1215); last two coins from M.R.Roberts (2010) and Geoff K. Gray (1975).
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