Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1133

Price realized: 360 GBP   (Approx. 455 USD / 420 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Maximus (son of Maximinus I), as Caesar, Æ 19mm of Coropissus, Cilicia. AD 235-238. Γ Ι ΟΥΗ ΜΑΞΙΜΟΝ ΚAIϹΑΡΑ, radiate and draped bust to right / ΚΟΡΟΠΙϹϹЄΩN, draped bust of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet and aegis. RPC VI Online 6930.10 (this coin, temporary); Ziegler 305; SNG BnF 774, BMC 3. 4.72g, 19mm, 6h.

Good Very Fine. Rare; one of ten examples on RPC Online.

This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
Ex Biga Numismatics, Online Auction 16, 18 February 2023, lot 203.

Estimate: 75 GBP

Match 1:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1132

Price realized: 600 GBP   (Approx. 759 USD / 699 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Maximinus I Æ 37mm of Tarsus, Cilicia. AD 235-238. ΑΥΤ Κ Γ ΙΟΥ ΟΥΗ ΜΑΞΙΜЄΙΝΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right; Π-Π across fields / ΤΑΡϹΟΥ, Apollo Pythios standing facing, holding branch and helmet, altar to right; all within tetrastyle temple adorned with eagle in pediment; AMK downwards in inner left field, THC MHTP in exergue. RPC VI Online 7105.13 (this coin, temporary); SNG BnF 1601; Levante 1100. 22.54g, 37mm, 6h.

Very Fine. Very Rare.

This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
From the Roman Provincial Images Collection.

Estimate: 100 GBP

Match 2:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1134

Price realized: 130 GBP   (Approx. 164 USD / 151 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Maximus (son of Maximinus I), as Caesar, Æ 29mm of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. AD 235-238. Γ ΙΟV ΟVΗ [ΜΑΞΙΜΟⳞ Κ], bare-headed and draped bust to right / ΠΡΟVC[ΙΕΩΝ] ΠΡΟC ΥΠ[ΙΩ], draped bust of Kieros(?) to right; c/m: draped bust to right within incuse oval and IB within incuse circle. RPC VI Online 3531.11 (this coin, temporary); RG 68; Howgego 65 & 836. 11.49g, 29mm, 6h.

Near Very Fine. Scarce.

This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 98, 16 June 2022, lot 876.

Estimate: 25 GBP

Match 3:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1166

Price realized: 260 GBP   (Approx. 329 USD / 303 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Valerian I Æ 28mm of Anemurium, Cilicia. Dated RY 3 = AD 255/6. AV K ΠO ΛI OV AΛЄP[I]ANON, laureate and draped bust to right / ANЄMOVPIЄѠN, a facing mummiform cult statue of Artemis, holding a branch in each hand; stag to left; ЄT Γ (date) to left. RPC X Online unassigned ID 60289 (this coin illustrated); SNG Levante 519; SNG BnF 715 var. (RY 2). 12.43g, 28mm, 6h.

Good Very Fine.

Export permit approved by the Israel Antiquities Authority.

This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 52, 10 January 2019, lot 615.

Estimate: 75 GBP

Match 4:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116Auction date: 18 January 2024
Lot number: 661

Price realized: 130 GBP   (Approx. 165 USD / 152 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Maximus, as Caesar, Æ 17mm of Nysa, Lydia. AD 235-238. ΜΑΖΙΜΟϹ Κ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / NVCAЄΩN, panther seated to left, placing paw on vase. RPC VI Online 4793 (temporary); GRPC Lydia 203; Regling 160; SNG Copenhagen 325; SNG Munich 384. 2.11g, 17mm, 6h.

Very Fine. Extremely Rare; only five examples listed by RPC online, four of which are in museum collections and no other examples on CoinArchives.

Estimate: 50 GBP

Match 5:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 2390

Price realized: 88 CHF   (Approx. 100 USD / 93 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


CILICIA. Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Gordian III, 238-244. Tetrassarion (Orichalcum, 31 mm, 13.01 g, 6 h). ANTΩNIOC ΓOPΔIANOC CЄBATOC Radiate and draped bust of Gordian III to right, seen from behind; on neck and before bust, two countermarks: monogram of ΔO within triangular incuse and monogram of KA. Rev. CЄΛЄVKЄ[ΩN] ΤΩ ΠΡΟϹ ΤΩ ΚΑ Tyche standing front, head to left, holding rudder in her right hand and cornucopiae in her left; behind, Gordian standing front, head to left, crowning Tyche with a wreath and holding scepter in his left hand. BMC 46 var. (differing reverse legend). RPC VII.2, 2922.23 (this coin). SNG Levante Supp. 204. SNG Paris 1013-1014 var. (differing reverse legend). SNG Righetti 1625. Ziegler 497 (this coin). For countermarks, Howgego 618 and 670. Very fine.


From the collection of Dr. P. Vogl, Leu Web Auction 9, 7 September 2019, 810, ex Naumann 63, 4 March 2018, 413 and Münz Zentrum Köln 68, 25 April 1990, 347 (with collector's ticket).

Starting price: 25 CHF