Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 30Auction date: 13 July 2024
Lot number: 1294

Price realized: 100 CHF   (Approx. 112 USD / 103 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


MACEDON. Philippi. Domitian, 81-96. AE (Bronze, 26 mm, 9.76 g, 6 h), AD 87. IMP CAES DOM AVG GERM COS XIII Laureate head of Domitian to left. Rev. COL AVG IVL PHILIPP Statue group of Divus Augustus being crowned by Divus Julius Caesar on base inscribed DIVVS/AVG in two lines; to left and right, altar. RPC II 345. Varbanov 3779 corr. (bust). Boldly struck and unusually attractive. Somewhat smoothed, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

Starting price: 75 CHF

Match 1:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 30Auction date: 13 July 2024
Lot number: 1998

Price realized: 150 CHF   (Approx. 168 USD / 154 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Domitian, 81-96. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 36 mm, 25.40 g, 6 h), Rome, 86. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS [PER P P] Laureate head of Domitian to right, with aegis on his left shoulder. Rev. S C Domitian, in military attire, standing front, head to left, holding thunderbolt in his right hand and long scepter in his left, being crowned by Victory standing behind him and holding palm over her left shoulder. BMC 381. Cohen 510. RIC 474. Attractive green patina. Flan crack and with light deposits, otherwise, good fine.

Starting price: 50 CHF

Match 2:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 30Auction date: 13 July 2024
Lot number: 1999

Price realized: 130 CHF   (Approx. 145 USD / 133 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Domitian, 81-96. Denarius (Silver, 18 mm, 3.43 g, 6 h), Rome, 87. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XII Laureate head of Domitian to right. Rev. IMP XXII COS XVI CENS P P P Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column decorated with small figures, brandishing spear with her right hand and holding shield in her left; at her feet, owl standing facing. BMC 202. Cohen 281. RIC 740. Very fine.

Starting price: 25 CHF

Match 3:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 31Auction date: 7 September 2024
Lot number: 1141

Price realized: 380 CHF   (Approx. 451 USD / 406 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Domitian, 81-96. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.54 g, 6 h), Rome, 87. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XII Laureate head of Domitian to right. Rev. IMP XXII COS XVI CENS P P P Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column decorated with small figures, brandishing spear with her right hand and holding shield in her left; at her feet, owl standing facing. BMC 202. Cohen 281. RIC 740. Fresh and attractive, and with an excellent portrait. About extremely fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 24, 3-6 December 2022, 2745.

Starting price: 100 CHF

Match 4:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 31Auction date: 7 September 2024
Lot number: 1142

Price realized: 170 CHF   (Approx. 202 USD / 182 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Domitian, 81-96. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.68 g, 6 h), Rome, 87. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XII Laureate head of Domitian to right. Rev. IMP XXII COS XVI CENS P P P Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column decorated with small figures, brandishing spear with her right hand and holding shield in her left; at her feet, owl standing facing. BMC 202. Cohen 281. RIC 740. Minor porosity and a few light marks, otherwise, very fine.

Starting price: 50 CHF

Match 5:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 30Auction date: 13 July 2024
Lot number: 1275

Price realized: 280 CHF   (Approx. 313 USD / 287 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


THRACE. Philippopolis. Domitian, 81-96. 'Sestertius' (Bronze, 32 mm, 17.35 g, 7 h), 88/9. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIIII CENS PER P P Laureate head of Domitian to right. Rev. ΦIΛΙΠΠOΠOΛEITΩN City-goddess standing front, head to left, holding patera in her right hand and grain ears in her left; to left, river god Hebrus reclining right, resting right on urn and holding reed in his left hand; behind to left, reed. RPC II 351. Varbanov 621-2. A beautiful example of this unusual bilingual issue. Somewhat smoothed, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of Mark Gibbons, Newcastle, ex Roma IX, 22 March 2015, 469.

This is the largest denomination of the interesting bilingual series of Philippopolis, struck in the year of Domitian's campaign on the Danube against the Dacian King Decebalus.

Starting price: 100 CHF