LOT 2708
Ancient Greek Coins - Sicily - Motya - Trias 413-397 B.C.
Obv: facing bust of gorgoneion with three pellets below. Rev: palm tree. and Punic legend. Very fine.(7.08 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, dealer.
LiteratureBMC 2, p.245, 16; Sear 1151.
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Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked AR Tetradrachm 194-193 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Posthumous issue. Aspendos, Pamphylia mint, dated year 19. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress. Rev: ALEXANDROY, Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; AS over I Θ in left field; Seleukid anchor countermark to obverse. 16.23 grams.
Very fine.
Ex UK private collection. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Seleucid - Tryphon Bronze 142-138 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Antioch mint. Obv: diademed head of Tryphon right. Rev: BASILEWS TRYFANOS AYTOKRATOROS to right and left of a Macedonian helmet left, adorned with ibex horn; star in lower left field. 4.23 grams.
Near extremely fine.
Property of a Harrow, UK gentleman. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Mysia - Kyzikos - Apollo AR Tetradrachm 3rd century B.C.
Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £167
Obv: head of Kore Soteira left, wearing wreath of corn and with her hair in a veiled sphendone. Rev: KYZI with Apollo, naked but for chlamys draped from his waist, seated left on omphalos, holding patera in right hand and resting left arm on a large lyre at his side; unclear symbol in left field. 13.03 grams.
Very fine.
Ex UK private collection.
