LOT 2263
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked Zeus AR Tetradrachm 213-212 B.C.
Phaselis, Pamphylia mint, posthumous issue, dated year 9. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress; Seleukid anchor countermark on head. Rev: ALEXANDROY legend with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; Θ over F in left field, O beneath chair. Good very fine.(16.51 grams.).
ProvenanceEx UK private collection.
LiteraturePrice 2845; Prokesch-Osten 53.
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LOT 2263
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked Zeus AR Tetradrachm
Sold for (Inc. bp): £133
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Ancient Greek Coins - Dyrrachium and Apollonia - AR Drachm Group [2] 80-40 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Group comprising: Apollonia, Illyria, Magistrates Simias and Autobulos. Obv: SIMIAS LE above and beneath cow left suckling calf. Rev: APO AYTO-BOY-LOY around double stellate pattern; with Dyrrhachium, Illyria. Magistrates Filon and Damageos. Obv: FILWN and eagle right on thunderbolt with head turned back above cow right suckling calf. Rev: DYR-DAMA-GE-OS around double stellate pattern. 6.35 grams total.
Fine.
Acquired in the mid 1980s. Property of a Harrow, UK, gentleman. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Apameia Phrygia - Eagle Bronze 133-48 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Magistrate Kokos. Obv: helmeted and cuirassed bust of Athena right. Rev: APAMEWN KWKOY above and beneath eagle standing right, wings spread, star above, all on maeander pattern between two piloi, each surmounted by a star. 8.35 grams.
Very fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked AR Tetradrachm 190-189 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £140
Aspendos, Pamphylia mint, posthumous issue, dated year 23. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress; Seleukid anchor countermark on cheek. Rev: ALEXANDROY legend with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; AS over K Γ in left field. 16.22 grams.
Near very fine.
Ex UK private collection.
