LOT 2590
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 throne. Very fine.(16.28 grams.).
ProvenanceEx UK private collection.
LiteraturePrice 2845; Prokesch-Osten 53.
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LOT 2590
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked Zeus AR Tetradrachm
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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Ancient Greek Coins - Kushan Empire - Vima Takhto (Soter Megas) - Horseman AE Tetradrachm 55-105 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Obv: radiate, diademed and draped bust right, holding sceptre in raised left hand, tamgha to left. Rev: BACILEY BACILEWN CwTHR MEGAC legend with King on horseback right, holding whip, tamgha to right. 8.28 grams.
Very fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, dealer. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked AR Tetradrachm 193-192 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Phaselis, Lycia mint, dated year 26. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress; Seleukid anchor countermark on head. Rev: ALEXANDROY with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; Φ over KC in left field. 15.90 grams.
Very fine.
Ex UK private collection. -
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.
