Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1155

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Trajan Decius Æ 28mm of Selinus-Traianopolis, Cilicia. AD 249-251. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Μ[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄΛΙ ΤΗϹ ΙЄΡΑϹ, Dionysus standing facing, head to left, holding cantharus over panther and thyrsus. Cf. RPC IX 1304; Levante E., The Coinage of Selinus in Cilicia in NC 1990 -. 8.38g, 28mm, 12h.

Very Fine. Extremely Rare; only one example cited by RPC and none on CoinArchives.

Estimate: 50 GBP

Match 1:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1050

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Caracalla Æ Assarion of Thuria, Messenia. AD 198-205. [...]M AVPH ANTѠNIN[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΘΟΥΡΙΑΤѠΝ, Tyche standing facing, head to left, holding patera and cornucopia; Λ-Α across fields. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 834.6; BMC 7 var. (obv. legend); NPC p. 66. 3.72g, 20mm, 6h.

Very Fine. Apparently unpublished obverse legend.

The inscription Λ-A (ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΩΝ) on reverse is an evidence that in the time of Severus and his family Thuria formed part of Laconia.
According to Pausanias (Description of Greece, IV.31.1): 'Eighty stades on the road which leads thence into the interior of Messenia is the city of the Thuriatae, which they say had the name Antheia in Homer's poems. Augustus gave Thuria into the possession of the Lacedaemonians of Sparta'

Estimate: 50 GBP

Match 2:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1100

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Macrinus Æ 28mm of Selinus-Traianopolis, Cilicia. AD 217-218. [AY] KAI M OΠ[...]EINOC [C?], laureate head to right / [TPAIAN]O CEΛI[NOY THC IEPAC]; Apollo Sidetes, standing facing, wearing short chiton and mantle, holding phiale and resting on sceptre; at his feet to right, raven. SNG BnF 684 = Levante E., The Coinage of Selinus in Cilicia in NC 1990, p. 231, 57. 12.00g, 28mm, 5h.

Near Very Fine. Extremely Rare; no other examples on CoinArchives.

Estimate: 50 GBP

Match 3:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1163

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Volusian Æ 24mm of Baris, Pisidia. AD 251-253. ΟΥЄΙΒ ΓΑΛΛΟϹ Λ ΟΥΟΛΟΥϹϹΙΟϹ Ϲ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΒΑΡΗΝΩΝ, Dionysus standing to left, holding cantharus over panther and thyrsus. RPC IX 936; von Aulock, Pisidien II, 389-93, and 396 = SNG von Aulock 5015. 6.92g, 24mm, 6h.

Near Very Fine. Very Rare; seemingly no others on CoinArchives.

Estimate: 30 GBP

Match 4:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1138

Price realized: 160 GBP   (Approx. 202 USD / 186 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Gordian III Æ 18mm of Casae, Cilicia. AD 238-244. ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ΚΑϹΑΤΩΝ, Tyche standing to left, holding rudder and cornucopia. RPC VII.2 2672.3 (this coin); SNG Pfalz 707-8. 2.84g, 18mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine. Very Rare; only three examples cited in RPC.

This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
Ex N&N London Ltd, Green Auction II, 3 October 2022, lot 218.

Estimate: 50 GBP

Match 5:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 118Auction date: 8 April 2024
Lot number: 1116

Price realized: 45 GBP   (Approx. 57 USD / 52 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Severus Alexander Æ 28mm of Kyzikos, Mysia. AD 238-244. Μ ΑΥΡ ϹΕΥΗ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑΥ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to left, holding sceptre and raising hand in salute / ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ, two agonistic crowns on a table, holding facing busts of radiate Alexander to right, and Julia Mamaea to left; below, vase between two palm branches. RPC VI Online 3776 (temporary); SNG BnF 821. 12.08g, 28mm, 7h.

Near Very Fine.

Estimate: 40 GBP