Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History, Stamps & Coins
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Judaea. Herodians, Herod III Antipas AE Quarter Unit. Dated RY 24 (20/1 CE). Tiberias mint.
Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
HPΩΔOY TETPAPXOY, reed; L KΔ (date) across field / TIBЄPIAC in two lines within wreath. RPC I 4920; Bromberg I 29; Hendin 6232; Meshorer, AJC, 3. 4.42gr, 15mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
London gentleman's collection, 1970-1990s, by descent. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Three ears of corn; L Ϛ (date) across fields / BACIΛЄധC AΓPIΠA, canopy. RPC I, 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 2.88gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
London gentleman's collection, 1970-1990s, by descent. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Three ears of corn; L [Ϛ] (date) across fields / BACIΛЄധC AΓPIΠ[A], canopy. RPC I, 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 3.22gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
London gentleman's collection, 1970-1990s, by descent. -
Palmyrene, Palmyra AE 10mm. Circa 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Estimate: £70 - 90 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £35
Turreted bust of Tyche(?) to right / Astarte standing facing in galley, holding cornucopia and wreath. Unpublished in the standard references, but cf. Stephen Album 28, 14 and Roma E-57, 549. 0.82gr, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Commagene, Samosata AE 15mm. Circa 30 BC.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
Lion walking to right / CAMOCATΩ ΠOΛEΩC, Tyche seated to right on rock, holding palm. Kovacs 290; RPC I, 3849; BMC 4. 3.81gr, 15mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Artaxerxes II to Artaxerxes III AR Siglos. Circa 375-340 BC. Sardes mint. Lydo-Milesian standard.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IV, Group C; cf. BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 19; Sunrise 33-6. 5.41gr, 15mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady. -
Persia, Achaemenid Empire AR 1/32 Siglos. Time of Darios I to Xerxes I, circa 505-480 BC.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Persian king or hero in kneeling/running stance to right, drawing bow / Rectangular incuse punch. BMC -; Carradice Type II; Klein 760. 0.15gr, 5mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Persia, Achaemenid Empire AR Tetartemorion. Time of Artaxerxes II to Darios III, circa 400-332 BC. Kolophon(?) mint.
Estimate: £70 - 90 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger and bow / Female head to left, wearing necklace. Corfù Type 3.2; Troxell & Kagan -; Sunrise -. 0.17gr, 6mm, 2h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Persia, Achaemenid Empire AR Tetartemorion. Time of Artaxerxes II to Darios III, circa 400-332 BC. Kolophon(?) mint.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £40
Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding spear and bow / Head of young male to right; K behind neck. Cf. Sunrise 99 (without K); CNG E- Auction 235/229, 2010 (Cilicia uncertain). 0.20gr, 6mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Persia, Achaemenid Empire AR 1/48 Stater. Time of Kyros - Darios I, in the types of Kroisos, circa 550-520 BC. Sardes mint.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £25
Head of roaring lion to right / Irregular incuse punch. GRPC Lydia S13 = Naumann 66, 189; CNG E-432, 71; CNG E-392, 283; Roma Numismatics, e-104, 465. 0.13gr, 5mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Persia, Alexandrine Empire AR Hemiobol. Time of Stamenes to Seleukos, Satraps of Babylon, circa 328-311 BC.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Baal seated to right, holding sceptre with right hand, and uncertain object (animal?) in extended left hand / Lion walking to left. BMC p. 183, 12 and pl. 21, 6; Traité II, 799 and pl. 115, 25. 0.40gr, 8mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Parthia, Mithradates I AR Tetradrachm. Dated SE 173 (140/139 BC). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Estimate: £2,500 - 3,500 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,300
Diademed and draped bust of Mithradates I to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ME-ΓAΛOY APΣA-KOY ΦIΛEΛ-ΛHNOΣ, Herakles standing to left, holding skyphos in his right hand and club and lion skin in his left; monogram of APT in outer left field; Γ[ΟΡ] (date) in exergue. Sellwood 13.3; Shore 36; Sunrise 261. 15.57gr, 27mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine. Minor deposits. Rare.
Swiss private collection, acquired in 1992.
