Auction XIX – 26 - 27 March 2020
The William Stancomb Collection, Celtic, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, British and...
Part 1: Th, 26.03.2020, from 11:00 AM CET
Part 2: Fr, 27.03.2020, from 11:00 AM CET
The auction is closed.
Part 2: Fr, 27.03.2020, from 11:00 AM CET
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Description
★ Ex NFA XIV, 1984 ★
Caracalla AR Tetradrachm of Tyre, Phoenicia. AD 209-212. AVT KAI ANTѠNINOC CЄ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX ЄΞ VΠAT Γ, laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, with lion's skin tied around neck. Prieur 1530 (this coin); Bellinger 299. 14.54g, 27mm, 6h.
Mint State; old cabinet tone. Very Rare; only 6 other examples in CoinArchives.
This coin published in M. Prieur, A Type Corpus of The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and Their Fractions from 57 BC to AD 253 (Lancaster, 2000);
Ex Michel Prieur Collection;
Ex Sotheby's, 8 July 1996, lot 142;
Ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Auction XIV, 29 November 1984, lot 489.
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Bidding
| Price realized | 4'200 GBP |
| Starting price | 2'400 GBP |
| Estimate | 4'000 GBP |
The auction is closed.
