Sale: Nomos 9, Lot: 205. Estimate CHF350. Closing Date: Monday, 20 October 2014. Sold For CHF280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Antioch. Aulus Gabinius, proconsul, 57-55 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25mm, 15.27 g 1). Idealized diademed head of the Seleukid king Philip Philadelphos to right.
Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟV / ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟVΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟV Zeus seated on throne to left, holding Nike in his right hand and long spear in his left; below throne, monogram of ΛΙ; to left, in field, monogram of ΑΥΛΓΒ. McAlee 1. Prieur 1. RPC 4124. An attractive toned example. Some pitting on the obverse,
otherwise, extremely fine.
Ex Gorny & Mosch 195, 7 March 2011, 298.