LOT 2583
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked AR Tetradrachm 221-220 B.C.
Posthumous issue, Perga, Pamphylia mint, dated year 1. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress. Rev: ALEXANDROY legend with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; ear mark A in left field; Seleukid anchor countermark to obverse. Good very fine.(15.80 grams.).
ProvenanceEx UK private collection.
LiteraturePrice 2915; Muller 1225; Prokesch-Osten 51.
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LOT 2583
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked AR Tetradrachm
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Ancient Greek Coins - Sicily - Hieron I - Arethusa AR Tetradrachm 485-466 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Deinomenid Tyranny, struck under Hieron I. Obv: bearded charioteer driving slow quadriga walking right, Nike flying right above, crowning the horses. Rev: SYRAKOSION legend clockwise from top right and ending beneath neck with pearl-diademed head of Arethusa right, wearing a necklace, her hair tied in a krobylos, four dolphins swimming right around. 16.81 grams.
Near extremely fine.
Ex UK private collection. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Illyria - Dyrrhachium - Cow AR Drachm 200-30 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Magistrates Philostratos and Damenos. Obv: FILOSTRATOS legend with cow standing right, looking back at calf suckling to left, corn ear to right, bunch of grapes below. Rev: [DYR] DAMHNOS around double stellate pattern in double linear square. 3.19 grams.
Near very fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, dealer. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Illyria - Cow and Calf AR Drachm 235-222 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Obv: cow left with calf and ΑΡΙΣΤΩΛ above. Rev: double stellate pattern with inscription around. 2.74 grams.
Good fine.
From an old English collection formed before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market.
