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Auction: 9026 - Ancient. English, Foreign Coins & Com. Medals
Lot: 1069

Roman Provincial, Alexandrian issues (5), Octavian, AE Obol, 25mm. 30-28 BC, bare head right, rev. eagle standing, cornucopia to left, Ð to right (BMCG 1/2, Koln 1), good fine, rare; Nero billon Tetradrachm, rev. galley (BMCG 176; Koln 184), good fine, scarce, Antoninus Pius (2), billon Tetradrachm, 138-139, Canopus of Osiris (BMCG 992; Koln 1285/6; cf. Sear 4339), very fine; AE Hemidrachm, 148-149, Isis Pharia holding sail, Pharos lighthouse right (BMCG 1119; Koln 1603), green brown patina, almost very fine, Commodus, billon Tetradrachm, 189-190, radiate head of Helios right (BMCG 1403, Koln 2242), nearly very fine, some scarce and historically interesting types (5) Estimate £ 300-400 The first continues the type of Cleopatra´s reformed bronze coinage and must be the first issue of the Roman conqueror of Egypt from the Alexandria mint.

Sold for
£300