The Pre Long Beach Auction - September 2011

Kingdom of Sasania. Shapur II, AD 309-379. AR Drachm (4.31 g). Crowned bust right of Shapur II. Reverse: Fire altar with two attendants; bust right wi

Sasanian Kingdom. Shahpur II, 309-379 AD. AR Obol (0.7 g). Mint of Kabul. Crowned and cuirassed bust right, wearing earring. Reverse: Fire altar wit

Sasanian Kingdom. Zamasp (Jamasp) 497-499 AD. AR Drachm (4.10 g). Dated year 3 (AD 498/9). Bust right wearing mural crown with inner crescent and kory

Sasanian Kingdom. Boran 630-631 AD. AR Drachm (3.6 g). Sakastan mint, dated year 2 (AD 631). Bust right of the Queen wearing crown with two wings and

Sasanian Kingdom. Ohrmazd (Hormizd V). 631-632 AD. AR Drachm (3.7 g). Stakhr mint, dated year 2. Bust right, wearing mural crown and frontal crescent,

HUNNIC TRIBES. Bahram I Kushanshah, 335-370 AD. Gold Dinar (7.8 g) King standing left, wearing crown with lotus globe; flames at shoulders, holding tr

Kingdom of Persis. Kapat, c. AD 20. AR Hemidrachm (1.94 g). Bearded, diademed and helmeted bust left of Kapat. Reverse: Diademed bust left (Kapat...

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Ptolemy I, 323-285 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.53 g) minted at Alexandria with Ptolemy I as Satrap, c. 310-305 BC. Diademed hea

L. Furius Cn.f. Brocchus, moneyer. AR Denarius minted at Rome, c. 63 BC. Bust right of Ceres between grain-ear and barleycorn. Reverse: Curule chair b

Pompey the Great, d. 48 BC. AR Denarius struck posthumously in Sicily, perhaps at Catana, by Sextus Pompey, one of his sons, 42-40 BC. Head right of P

Julius Caesar, d. 44 BC. AR Denarius struck at the mint moving with Caesar in North Africa, 47-46 BC. Diademed head right of Venus. Reverse: Aeneas wa

Julius Caesar, d. 44 BC. Gold Aureus (8.10 g) minted at Rome by L. Plautius Plancus, urban prefect, 45 BC. Draped bust right of Victory; behind, wing.

Julius Caesar, d. 44 BC. AR Denarius minted posthumously at Rome by moneyer C. Cossutius Maridianus, c. 44 BC, after the Ides of March. Veiled and wre

Julius Caesar, d. 44 BC. AR Denarius minted posthumously at Rome by moneyer L. Livineius Regulus, 42 BC. Laureate head right of the deified Julius Cae

Brutus, d. 42 BC. AR Denarius struck in early 42 BC at the mint moving with Brutus, possibly at Smyrna. Axe, simpulum and sacrificial knife. Reverse:

Cassius, d. 42 BC. AR Denarius struck in early 42 BC at the mint moving with Brutus and Cassius, possibly at Smyrna. Diademed head right of Libertas.

Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, d. 31 BC. AR Denarius struck at a moving mint (region of the Adriatic or Ionian Sea), 41 BC. Bare head right of Ahenobarbus.

Cleopatra VII, d. 30 BC. AR Denarius struck at a moving mint (Alexandria?), c. 34 BC. Diademed and draped bust right of Cleopatra; underneath, prow. R

Tiberius, AD 14-37. Gold Aureus (7.76 g) minted at Lugdunum. Laureate head right of Tiberius. Reverse: Female (Livia?) seated right, holding scepter a

Tiberius, AD 14-37. Gold Aureus (7.71 g) minted at Lugdunum. Laureate head right of Tiberius. Reverse: Female (Livia?) seated right, holding scepter a