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Edom (Idumaea) AR Quarter Shekel-Drachm. 4th century BC. Imitating Athens.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Helmeted head of Athena to right / Owl standing to right. GTvA 9-11; HGC 10, 617. 4.12gr, 13mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Philisita (Palestine), Uncertain mint AR Obol. Circa 353-333 BC. Imitating Athens.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Helmeted head of Athena to right / Owl standing to right, head facing; olive spray and crescent to left; [A]ΘΕ downwards before; all within incuse square. Gitler & Tal IX.1O. 0.66gr, 9mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Cleaning scratches.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Philistia (Palestine) Gaza AR Obol. Mid 5th century-333 BC.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Bids: 5 | Current Bid: £45
Janiform head / Forepart of horse to right; Aramaic letter to upper left; all in linear square within incuse square. Gitler & Tal VI.8O; HGC 10, 567. 0.70gr, 8mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Samaria, "Middle Levantine" Series AR Obol. Circa 375-333 BC. Imitating Athens.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Helmeted head of Athena to right / Owl standing to right, head facing; [olive spray to left], 'BD'L (in Aramaic) to right. Meshorer & Qedar 59; Sofaer 114-5. 0.76gr, 9mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Middle or Southern Levantine Uncertain AR Drachm. 5th-4th century BC.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £90
Two confronted heads; male on left, female on right / Persian king or hero standing to left, slaying lion standing to right on hind legs; all within linear border within incuse square. Cf. Meshorer & Qedar, Samarian, no 35 (obol). 2.61gr, 15mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine. Test cut.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Northwestern Arabia, Lihyan AE 'Tetradrachm'. 2nd-1st centuries BC. Imitating Athens.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Stylised head of Athena to right, upward crescent on cheek / Owl standing to right, head facing; olive spray to left. Cf. Huth, Athenian, fig. 5, e; cf. Huth 40. 8.36gr, 22mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Northwestern Arabia, Lihyan AE 'Tetradrachm'. 2nd-1st centuries BC. Imitating Athens.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Stylised head of Athena to right, upward crescent on cheek / Owl standing to right, head facing; olive spray to left. Cf. Huth, Athenian, fig. 5, e; cf. Huth 40. 10.52gr, 23mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
South Arabia. Himyar AR Unit. Circa AD 100-120.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Head to right within dotted circle interrupted by monogram to left / Small head to right; 'sceptre' to right. Cf. SNG ANS 1602-1609. 0.64gr, 11mm, 8h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Ex property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator, second satrapy and kingship AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 311-308/5 BC. Uncertain mint 6A, in Bablyonia. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £15
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔ[ΡΟΥ], Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, legs spread, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; anchor and monogram of EΠΡ in left field, K beneath throne. SC 67.5c; Price 3437 (Marathus); HGC 9, 10d. 17.16gr, 27mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. 261-246 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £30
Diademed head of Antiochos I to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ [A]NT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; monogram of MATP to outer left and monogram of HPAE to outer right. SC 587.4c; ESM 190; HGC 9, 236g. 16.04gr, 27mm, 8h.
Very Fine. Toned.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Parthia, Phriapatios to Mithradates I AR Drachm. Circa 185-132 BC. Hekatompylos mint.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £5
Diademed and draped bust to left, wearing bashlyk / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ APΣ-AKOY, Archer (Arsakes I) seated to right on omphalos, holding bow. Sellwood 10.1 (Mithradates I); Shore 12 (Mithradates I); Sunrise 254. 3.70gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Cleaned.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Parthia, Phriapatios to Mithradates I AR Drachm. Circa 185-132 BC. Uncertain mint.
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £22
Diademed and draped bust to left, wearing bashlyk / BΛᕒIΛEΩᕒ ΜΕΓΛΛΟΥ ΛPΣΛKOY, Archer (Arsakes I) seated to right on omphalos, holding bow. Cf. Sellwood 10.1 (Mithradates I; Hekatompylos mint). 3.09gr, 19mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
