| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2643 Price realized: 165 CHF (Approx. 188 USD / 174 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Elagabalus, 218-222. Octassarion (Bronze, 30 mm, 19.15 g, 12 h), CY 281 = 218. [ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ] ΑΝΤⲰΝΙΝΟϹ Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus to right. Rev. ΠΟΜΠ / ΓΑΔΑΡЄⲰ[Ν] / ΑΠϹ Galley with eight oarsmen and hortator at stern left; at prow, figure standing right and vexillum; below to left, dolphin swimming right. Rosenberger 79. RPC VI online 9255.8 and 9255.13 (both this coin, listed twice in error). SNG ANS 1330. Spijkerman 85 (same dies). Repatinated, otherwise, about very fine. From the Jay Smith Collection of coins of Elagabalus, ex Classical Numismatic Group E-Auction 525, 19 October 2022, 697, Classical Numismatic Group Mail Bid Sale 118, 13 September 2021, 745, from the Father & Son Collection, Goldberg 90, 2 February 2016, 3195 and ex Goldberg 37, 10 September 2006, 3439. Situated near the modern village of Ain Qais in Jordan, close to the triple border with Israel and Syria, Gadara was a strategic stronghold in a defensible position with access to the nearby springs and cisterns, and also a major center of Hellenistic culture. Originally part of the Herodian Kingdom of Judaea, Gadara was annexed to the Roman Province of Syria upon the death of Herod the Great in 4 BC. The galley shown on some of its 3rd century coins is probably a reference to the Roman fleet serving the Sea of Galilee, which was well visible from Gadara, and which saw action during the First Jewish Revolt, in 67 CE. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2560 Price realized: 50 CHF (Approx. 57 USD / 53 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Elagabalus, 218-222. Tetradrachm (Billon, 26 mm, 9.48 g, 12 h), 219. ΑΥΤ Κ Μ Α ΑΝ•••ΤⲰΝЄΙΝΟC [CЄΒ] Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus to right, seen from behind. Rev. ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΥΠΑΤΟC ΤΟ Β / Δ - Є Eagle with spread wings standing facing, head to left and holding wreath in beak; between the eagle's legs, star. McAlee 763. Prieur 272. Beautifully toned. Minor pitting and a bit rough, otherwise, very fine. From the Jay Smith Collection of coins of Elagabalus, ex Classical Numismatic Group E-Auction 540, 14 June 2023, 349 and Classical Numismatic Group E-Auction 453, 2 October 2019, 297. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 31 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 494 Price realized: 340 CHF (Approx. 373 USD / 350 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CILICIA. Tarsos. Gordian III, 238-244. Pentassarion (Bronze, 36 mm, 29.20 g, 12 h). ΑΥΤ Κ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC CΕΒ / Π Π Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III to right. Rev. ΤΑΡCΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩC On the right, Perseus holding harpe and patera facing to left towards Demeter standing to right, holding lighted torch in each hand; between them, garlanded altar, before which a sacrificial bull is lying to left; on the altar, half length figures of Tranquillina and Gordian standing to right, facing Perseus, jointly holding a shield; in the background, column surmounted by the statue of Apollo Lykeios; across fields, Α Μ Κ Γ Β. RPC VII.2, 3141. SNG France 1644. SNG Levante 1119. A few deposits, otherwise, nearly very fine. Starting price: 100 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2659 Price realized: 50 CHF (Approx. 57 USD / 53 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: PHOENICIA. Aradus. Elagabalus, 218-222. Octassarion (Bronze, 29 mm, 14.43 g, 12 h), CY 477 = 218/9. [ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥ]Ρ ΑΝΤⲰΝΙΝΟϹ Laureate head of Elagabalus to right, with slight drapery on his left shoulder. Rev. ΑΡΑΔΙⲰΝ / Є - ΖΟΥ (date retrograde) Cypress tree; to left, bull standing right, and to right, lion standing left; in the background, standard shaped as a hand behind the bull, vexillum behind the lion; above lion's head, crescent. BMC -. CNG 191 (2008), 127 corr. (same dies, but missattributed to Caracalla). RPC VI online 8204. SNG Copenhagen -. Extremely rare, apparently the fifth recorded example. Flan flaws and light reverse erosion, otherwise, good fine. From the Jay Smith Collection of coins of Elagabalus, ex Solidus E-Auction 96, 22 March 2022, 1139. Starting price: 50 CHF |  |
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| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2612 Price realized: 460 CHF (Approx. 523 USD / 486 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Elagabalus, 218-222. Diassarion (Bronze, 20 mm, 6.66 g, 12 h), CY 530 = 218/9. ΑΥ Κ Μ Α [ΑИΤΩИЄΙИΟϹ ϹЄΒ] Laureate head of Elagabalus to right. Rev. [ЄΜΙϹⲰΝ ΚΟΛ (retrograte) / ΦΛ] Baetyl of El-Gabal flanked by parasols (or semeia, religious cultic standards) within hexastyle temple with central stairway. BMC 17, Nurpetlian, Orontes Valley, 41. RPC VI 8372 . Very rare, apparently the seventh recorded example. A highly interesting piece of crude style. Crudely struck on a somewhat short flan, some minor deposits, otherwise, very fine. From the Jay Smith Collection of coins of Elagabalus and from the Albert Reeves Collection, previously privately acquired from P. Goodwin in 1990. Ilah el-Gabal ('the god/deity of the mountain'), who we better known by his latinized name Elagabalus, was a Syro-roman sun god worshipped in the form of a baetyl in Emesa, and the religious ba'al or 'lord' of the city. After the dissolution of the Seleukid Kingdom of Syria by Pompey in 64 BC, the Romans aknowldegded the local dynasty of hereditary priests of el-Gebal as semi-autonomous rulers of Emesa. In 218, under Caracalla's successor, Macrinus, Sex. Avitus Bassianus, the young priest of el-Gabal, a nephew of Caracalla's, claimed to be an illegitimate son of the deceased emperor and was proclaimed emperor by the Legio III Gallica in Raphanea, thus overthrowing Macrinus. Once in power, Bassianus, whom we know today by his nicknam Elagabalus, the name of his deity, transferred the sacred Stone of Emesa to Rome, where he had a new temple, the Elagabalium, erected to house it. This present coin, on the other hand, shows the sacred stone in the god's original temple in Emesa, which most likely constructed in earlier Roman imperial times. Since the baetyl appears again on Emesan coins until the times of Uranius Antoninus, it must have been returned to Emesa after the fall of his most prominent worshipper, the emperor nicknamed after him, Elagabalus. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
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| Nomos AG > obolos 31 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 520 Price realized: 85 CHF (Approx. 93 USD / 87 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: SYRIA, Decapolis. Gadara. Lucius Verus, 161-169. (Bronze, 28 mm, 8.68 g, 12 h), dated EKC = CY 225 = 161/2. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ Λ ΑΥΡ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ Laureate and draped bust of Lucius Verus to right. Rev. ΠO ΓΑΔΑΡEΩΝΙ Α Α Γ Κ ϹEΥ / ΕΚϹ (date in pediment) Zeus seated left within tetrastyle temple, right hand extended, and holding long sceptre in left. RPC IV.3, 6294 (temporary). Spijkerman 51, BMC 6. Very rare. Nearly very fine. Starting price: 75 CHF |  |
