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 - Attica - Athens - Owl AR Tetradrachm After 449 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
Obv: head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves and palmette. Rev: AʘE with owl standing right, head facing; to left, olive sprig and crescent; all within incuse square. 17.17 grams.
Good extremely fine, almost as struck.
Ex UK private collection. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Bithynia - Calcedon - Bull AR Drachm 387-340 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Obv: bull standing left on ear of corn(?), monogram before, KAΛX above. Rev: incuse quadripartite granulated square. 3.79 grams.
Good very fine.
Ex UK private collection. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked AR Tetradrachm 187-186 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Aspendos, Pamphylia mint, dated year 26. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress, countermark of Seleukid anchor. Rev: ALEXANDROY legend with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; AS over KC in left field, spear-head left below. 16.02 grams.
Near very fine.
Ex UK private collection.
