20250201

GREEK/Seleucid; Alexander II Zabinas BCE 128-122


 AE 18 mm, 6.31 g, Antioch mint BCE 129/8 (SE 184)


SC 2229.1 variety


O: diademed hd of Alexander II r. diadem ends falling straight behind, dotted border.

R: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ on the r., AΛΕΞANΔPOY on l., young Dionysus stg., l., holding cantharus and thyrsus.


Date; inner left reading downward: ΔΠP


Control IΣI to outer left with any symbols off flan.


20250111

UK Polymer Currency 2014-2022


 Five Pounds signed by Victoria Cleland 2014-2018, depicting Churchill


Ten Pounds signed by Victoria Cleland 2014-2018, depicting Jane Austen


Twenty Pounds signed by Sarah John 2018-present, depicting J.M.W. Turner

20250108

ROMAN EGYPT/Salonina CE 253-268

Potin Tetradrachm; 9.91 g, 21-22 mm, Alexandria mint, RY 4= CE 256/7

Köln 2961
RPC X Online 75346 (this coin illustrated)
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/472296
Emmett –n/a
Curtis 1542 (this coin)
Dattari 5307
BMC 2259
Milne 3934
Demetrio 3122
RCV 10698

O: draped bust r wearing stephane; KOPNEΛIA CAΛωNEINA CEB

R: Nike adv r with wreath L to the outer left field and Δ to outer right field


EX: Musa Numismatic Art/Glen Lindwall (CA)

EX: CNG 556 (21 Feb 2024) lot 412

Ex: Dr. Thomas E. Beniak Collection purchased from CNG 8 March 1991

Ex: Hans M. F. Schulman Auction 17 June 1958, portion of lot 504 from the Curtis Collection

Ex: Col. James W. Curtis Collection, 1542 



 

20250106

ROMAN PROVINCIAL/Pisidia; Antioch; Julia Domna CE 193-217


 AE 22 mm, 5.69 g, 6h, c. CE 205

SNG Paris 1134

RPC 74362 (3 examples noted with this coin illustrating type)

O: draped bust r, IVLIA AV-GVSTI

R: Mên stg facing hd to the right, left foot on bucranium, chicken at rt foot and holding nike, COL MEN ANTIOC


Ex: FSR
Ex: Eid Mar Auctions (Germany) 1 lot 262 (16 December 2023)





ROMAN PROVINCIAL/Pisidia, Antioch; Caracalla CE 198-217


 AE 22 mm, 5.62 g, 12h, c. CE 205

SNG Von Aulock 4934

RPC 74368

O: laur draped and cuirassed bust r, ANTONINVS PIVS AVG

R: Genius stg facing hd l, holding cornucopia, ANTIOCH G-EN COL CA


Ex: FSR