662. AE 35, 20.77g. Cilicia, Tarsus. Obv: AVT KAI IOV ΦIΛIΠΠON EVT EVC CE around, Π - Π in field, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right. Rx: TAPCOV THC MHTPOΠOΛEΩC around, B in left field, A / M / K / Γ stacked in right field, Herakles, nude, standing right, grasping nude giant Antaios around the waist and raising him from the ground. See Voegtli, Heldenepen, pp. 66-8: this scene appears on the provincial coins of Tarsus and eight other cities. SNG Levante 1152 (same dies). Good Fine $175
665. Trajan Decius. 249-251 AD. AE 30, 20.41g. Lydia, Maeonia. Obv: ΑVT K ΓΜΚY.ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟC ΔΕΚΙΟC Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right. Rx: ΕΠ ΑΥΡ ΑΦΦΙAΝΟΥ Β ΑPX Α ΤΟ Β Κ CΤΕΦΑΝΗ around, MAIONΩN in exergue, Dionysos seated left in car drawn by two panthers, holding kantharos, thrysos over shoulder; above panthers, Bacchante left, looking back at Dionysus and holding vine with bunches of grapes growing from it. BM 53, pl. XIV,10 (reverse only, same die). Good Fine $400
Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.
Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.
663. Philip II as Caesar. 245-247 AD. AE 18, 3.10g. Thrace, Bizya. Obv: M IOVΛ ΦIΛIΠΠOC KAICAP (AP ligate) Head bare right. Rx: BIZVHN - ΩN (HN ligate) Naked Silenos with tail stepping right, holding wineskin on his shoulders from which he pours wine into large krater on ground before him. Jurukova 157, pl. 26 (same dies). Good VF $100
666. AE 35, 26.58g. Pisidia, Codrula. Obv: AYT K Γ ΜΕCI KYIN TPAIA ΔEKION Bust radiate, draped, cuirassed right. Rx: KOΔPOYΛΕΩΝ Rhea seated right, facing Kronos seated left holding harpa and scepter; small statue behind each of them. Rare: von Aulock knew only this coin and two others, in Paris and BM, all three from the same pair of dies. The reverse die, remarkably enough, was some forty years old, having earlier been used for both Septimius Severus and Philip I, von Aulock's nos. 996 and 1020, pl. 22 and pl. 24. Von Aulock, Pisidien I, 1025, pl. 24 (this coin). SNG Paris 1432 (same dies). VF $300
Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.
Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection. Ex CNG 63, 21 May 2003, lot 1022. Earlier in the Hecht Collection, published by him in Numismatic Chronicle 1968, p. 31, 13, pl. X.
664. AE 20, 3.85g. Thrace, Bizya. Obv: [M ]IOVΛ ΦIΛIΠΠOC KAI[CAP] (AP ligate) Head bare right. Rx: BIZVHN - ΩN (HN ligate) Naked Silenos with tail stepping right, holding wineskin on his shoulders from which he pours wine into large krater on ground before him. Another specimen from the same die pair. Jurukova 157, pl. 26 (same dies). About EF $200 Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.
667. Herennius Etruscus as Caesar. 250-251 AD. AE 28, 20.84g. Moesia Superior, Viminacium, Year 12 = 250/1 AD. Obv: Q H ETR MES DEC CAES Bare-headed, draped bust right. Rx: P M S - COL VIM around, AN XII in exergue, Moesia standing left between bull and lion, holding branch and globe. AMNG 144 (10 specimens). Varbanov 187. Good VF $500
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