100 / 128
98
413.
Lot of three billon tetradrachms of
Commodus.
(1) Year 24 = 183/4 AD, 10.29g. Head
laureate right / Emperor standing left sacrificing
at altar before bust of Sarapis on column. Cologne
2212. (2) Year 28 = 187/8 AD, 10.60g. Head of
Commodus laureate right / Bust of Sarapis right
wearing kalathos. Cologne 2231. Emmett 2555/28
(R2). (3) Year 30 = 189/90 AD, 12.78g. Head of
Commodus laureate right / Head of moon-goddess
Selene left, facing crescent. Cologne 2252. Pleasant
VF
$350
414.
Lot of one billon tetradrachm and one bronze
drachm of Caracalla, both ex Dattari.
(1)
Caracalla as Caesar, tetradrachm, Year 4 = 195/6
AD, 10.29g. Bare-headed, draped, cuirassed (?) bust
right / Tyche seated left holding rudder and cornuco-
pia. Dattari-Savio pl. 219, 4042 (this coin). Emmett
2768/4 (R5, citing our Dattari coin). (2) Caracalla as
Augustus, Year 21 = 212/3 AD, 20.99g. Head lau-
reate right / Jupiter seated left holding Nike and
scepter. Cologne 2292 (same dies). Dattari-Savio
pl. 220, 4060 (this coin). Dattari, followed with a
question mark by Emmett 2833, misinterpreted the
reverse of his coin as showing Euthenia seated rath-
er than Zeus. The tetradrachm very rare but heav-
ily pitted, the drachm Bold Fine with an excellent
mature portrait of Caracalla
$500
415.
Lot of three bronze diobols of Septimius
Severus, Geta as Caesar, and Maximinus I,
the last ex Dattari.
(1) Septimius Severus, AE
24, possibly Year 6 = 197/8 AD, 10.51g. Head
of Septimius laureate right / Bust of bearded god
right. Unattributable until better specimens appear;
the obverse die should be identifiable. (2) Geta as
Caesar, AE 20-23.5, date illegible but possibly Year
8 = 199/200 AD, 8.17g. Bare-headed bust right /
Caracalla and Geta in military dress, standing fac-
ing one another and sacrificing at an altar between
them. Cf. Dattari-Savio pl. 222, 4082 (Year 8) and
Emmett 2808 (citing only the Dattari coin of Year
8). (3) Maximinus I, AE 22-23, date illegible, 9.27g.
Obv: AVTO MAΞIMINOC EVC CE (weak) Bust
laureate, draped, cuirassed right. Rx: Nike seated
left holding wreath and palm, date in lower left field
illegible. Stated to be ex Dattari, but not illustrated
in Dattari-Savio. Unpublished, only the second
Alexandrian bronze coin known for the reign of
Maximinus I, after a unique bronze drachm of Year
1 that appeared in Sotheby’s Jungfleisch Sale of 9
March 1972, and is now in the collection of John
Aiello (Emmett 3309/1). Perhaps our new diobol
is also of Year 1, like the drachm; on the other
hand its Nike seated reverse type appeared on the
reign’s tetradrachms only in Year 4 (Emmett 3291