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LOT 2751
Group of Seventeen [17] Mixed Ancient Greek Coins. 3rd-1st century BC.
Various types. Near Fine to Near Very Fine.(54gr total.). [17]
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Kings of Cappadocia, Hypaioros AE 17mm. Circa 250-187 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
Uncertain mint. Head to right, wearing bashlyk / ΥΠΑΙoΡo[...], Nike standing facing, head to left, holding long palm in extended right hand. Unrecorded ruler but cf. Roma Numismatics, E-81, 607 ('ΥΠΑΙ' legend on coin of Ariarathes) and HGC 9, 493b (similar reverse of issue of Antiochos III). 5.00gr, 17mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine. Unpublished and unique; of great historical and numismatic importance.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
It is not rare when a coin can be the only evidence about the existence of a person or city from the past. On this particular coin, it is the inscription of YΠΑΙΟΡΟ that makes it difficult to attribute. No city or ruler is recorded with this name and the only ancillary evidence we have is its similarity to some other types. First of all, the style of the leather helmet (called bashlyk, common for the Cappadocian bronzes) and the lack of the royal title, refer us to the king of Cappadocia, Ariaramnes. The Roma's example is the only other example who bears the abbreviated legend YΠΑΙ but on a coin of Ariarathes. On the other hand, the reverse type and style of legend resemble the bronze coins of Antiochos III struck in Southern Coele-Syria (SC 1100a; HGC 9, 493b). It is not certain whether the name refers to a city or to a ruler. Bronze coins of Ariaramnes can have the name of the mint abbreviated (cf. Simonetta 9a&b), but it is considered unusual in this period to have a bronze coin with a full ethnic and the portrait of the ruler. It is very likely that we are dealing with the name of a Cappadocian ruler who was active for a short period in the second half of the 3rd to the first part of the 2nd century and participated in the recovery of the outlying provinces of the Seleucid Empire from Antiochos III. -
Apulia, Luceria AE Teruncius. Circa 211-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Head of Poseidon to right; three pellets (mark of value) behind / Dolphin swimming to right; LOVCERI below, trident to right above. HN Italy 680; HGC 1, 609. 9.85g, 22mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Phoenicia, Arados AR Tetradrachm. Circa 138/7-44/3 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Dated CY 199 (61/60 BC). Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right / ΑΡΑΔΙΩΝ, Nike standing facing, head to left, holding aplustre and palm; ΘϘΡ (date) above Aramaic letter qoph above AN; all within wreath. Duyrat 4189; DCA 772; HGC 10, 72. 13.17gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
