CNG Triton XVI Virtual Catalog

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711. PAMPHYLIA, Sillyum. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ (38mm, 30.83 g, 6h). AVT KAICAP Λ AVPHΛ [K] OMOΔOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CIΛ ΛVЄΩN, draped bust of Mên, wearing Phrygian cap, right, crescent horns on shoulders; no stars on cap. RPC Online -; SNG Pfälzer -; cf. SNG France 972-973 (for obv.; same die); CMRDM, Sillyon 8 (this coin). VF, green patina, gently smoothed area of roughness and a few light adjustment marks on obverse. Apparently unique. ($2000) Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (not in the Peus sale; includes his envelope); Münzen und Medaillen AG 41 (18 June 1970), lot 507.

712. CILICIA, Aegeae. Macrinus. AD 217-218. Æ (30mm, 18.29 g, 6h). Dated CY 264 (217/8). AV[T K] M • OΠ CЄV MAKPINO[C], radiate and cuirassed bust right; c/ms: 1) eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread; 2) laureate head (of Elagabalus?) right; 3) head of Asclepius right / MAKPINOV Π[...]Θ around, AIΓЄΩN in exergue, ship under sail to left beside the pharos (lighthouse) of Aegeae surmounted by statue of Poseidon, holding trident; to left, goat kneeling right above second ship in the distance; Δ[ΞC] to upper right. Robert, Cilicie, p. 178, fig. 8 var.; SNG France 2344 var.; SNG Levante 1746 var.; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Pfälzer –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –; Lindgren –; MPR II –; Mionnet –; for c/m’s: Howgego 336, 100, and 5, respectively. VF, attractive green patina. An apparently unpublished variant of a very rare type. ($1000) An interesting coin with a reverse superior to the specimens cited above. Those examples differ in bust types, obverse legend (in the case of the Levante coin), and in minor details of the reverse.

713. CILICIA, Syedra. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ 11 Assaria (30mm, 15.68 g, 12h). KOPNEΛIA CAΛONINA CЄB, draped bust right, wearing stephane / CYЄΔ PЄΩN, bearded deity seated right on rock, holding spear and shield set on ground. SNG France 668; SNG Levante 446 (same dies); SNG von Aulock –; SNG Pfälzer –; BMC 17-8 (same rev. die; obv. not plated). Good VF, green patina. ($300) From Group CEM.

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