LOT 2659
Ancient Greek Coins - Indo-Scythian - Azes I or II - King Seated Tetradrachm 58-2 B.C.
Obv: BASILEWS BASILEWN MEGALOY AZOY legend with Azes sitting facing, cross-legged on couch with sword on lap, holding statuette in extended right hand. Rev: 'Maharajasa Rajadhirajasa Mahatasa Ayasa' in Karoshti with Hermes standing front, looking left, holding caduceus in left hand and raising his right hand; monograms to left and right. Good fine.(10.34 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, dealer.
LiteratureHoover HGC 662 (Azes I); Mitchiner Indo-Greek 861f (Azes II).
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LOT 2659
Ancient Greek Coins - Indo-Scythian - Azes I or II - King Seated Tetradrachm
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Ancient Greek Coins - Mixed AE Coin Group [21] 3rd-1st century B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Group comprising: mixed issues and types. 86.08 grams total.
Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, dealer. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Sicily - Syracuse - Timoleon - AE Litra 344-317 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Obv: ZEYS ELEYQERIOY legend with bearded and laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios left, star behind head. Rev: SYRAKOSION legend with triskeles of human legs rotating left with central gorgoneion. 6.46 grams.
Good very fine; some tooling.
Ex John Moore, York, UK, in the late 1990s. Property of a Harrow, UK gentleman. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Indo-Greek - Hermaios Soter - Portrait AE 105-90 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22
Hermaios Soter posthumous issue, struck 70-65 BC. Obv: BASILEWS SWTHROS ERMAIOY legend with diademed and draped bust of Hermaios right. Rev: Karosthi legend 'Maharajasa tratarasa Heramayasa' with Zeus seated left, holding sceptre and raising right hand; monogram in left field, Karosthi "ha" in right field. 8.23 grams.
Good fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, dealer.
