Roman Empire, a collection of 587 portrait Colonial bronzes, mostly dating to the second and third centuries AD, with a rich variety of types and emperors, including about thirty AE32-AE35, some with very attractive reverse types among which are mythological and architectural scenes, an AE34 of Gordian III from the mint of Seleucia (BMC 21.137, 39), and another from Arycanda in Lycia (cf. BMC 19.45, 6), a striking AE36 of Stratoniceia, Caria with facing portraits of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, rev., Zeus Panamaros riding horse right, together with a group of some 35 AE29 of Macrinus from the mint of Laodiceia, laureate head of Macrinus right, rev., she-wolf sucking Romulus and Remus (BMC 20.261, 97), and an array of different bronze denominations, the majority from cities in western Asia Minor and the Levant, including some earlier bronzes from the reign of Augustus (27BC-AD14) and of the Greek period, overall fine to very fine, different patinas, some coins with countermarks, a wonderful holding well worth careful examination and review (approximately 587) (lot)
Roman Empire, a collection of 587 portrait Colonial bronzes, mostly dating to the second and third centuries AD, with a rich variety of types and emperors, including about thirty AE32-AE35, some with very attractive reverse types among which are mythological and architectural scenes, an AE34 of Gordian III from the mint of Seleucia (BMC 21.137, 39), and another from Arycanda in Lycia (cf. BMC 19.45, 6), a striking AE36 of Stratoniceia, Caria with facing portraits of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, rev., Zeus Panamaros riding horse right, together with a group of some 35 AE29 of Macrinus from the mint of Laodiceia, laureate head of Macrinus right, rev., she-wolf sucking Romulus and Remus (BMC 20.261, 97), and an array of different bronze denominations, the majority from cities in western Asia Minor and the Levant, including some earlier bronzes from the reign of Augustus (27BC-AD14) and of the Greek period, overall fine to very fine, different patinas, some coins with countermarks, a wonderful holding well worth careful examination and review (approximately 587) (lot)
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