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LOT 3779
Group of Eight [8] Greek and Roman Coins. Circa 3rd century BC-3rd century AD.
Various types. Near Fine to Very Fine.(44.09gr total.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, collector.
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Kleopatra III and Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros) ΑΕ Hemiobol(?). 117/6-108/7 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Kyrene mint; struck 116-107 BC. Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing taenia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ, double cornucopiae bound with fillet; Σ over Θ to left, Ω over Ε to right. Svoronos 1718 (Ptolemy X, Alexandria); Weiser 169-70 (Ptolemy IX & X, Alexandria); SNG Copenhagen 678-80 (uncertain mint in Cyprus). 3.90gr, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Arabia, Mleiha. Imitative Abi'el BI Tetradrachm. Circa 1st century BC-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress; dot on cheek / Figure seated to left, holding sceptre and horse in outstretched hand; 'b'l in Aramaic to right, palm tree before, trident-like symbol in inner left field, pellets behind, above and beneath strut of throne. Cf. Huth 130-5; HGC 10, 689. 16.36gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
Phrygia, Hierapolis AE 22mm. 2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Pseudo-autonomous issue. ZЄYC BΩZIOC, bare head of Zeus Bozios to right; c/m: female(?) bust to right within rectangular incuse / IЄPAΠΟΛЄΙΤ-Ω-Ν, Apollo holding reins in right hand and bipennis over left shoulder in left, riding horse to right. RPC III, 2358C; BMC Phrygia 42; SNG Copenhagen 429; SNG Munich 223. 5.79gr, 22mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
