LOT 2890
Apulia, Luceria AE Quadrunx. Circa 211-200 BC.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress; four pellets (mark of value) downwards behind / Quiver, club and bow; LOVCERI beneath club. HN Italy 679; SNG ANS 704-5; HGC 1, 608. Near Extremely Fine. Rare.(14.45gr, 24mm, 2h). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Gutekunst Collection;
From an old UK collection;
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
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Ionia, uncertain mint EL 1/48 Stater. Circa 600-550 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Lydo-Milesian standard. Crab(?) / Incuse square with irregular lines within. Weidauer -; Elektron -; cf. Rosen 81 and 346-7 (1/6 and 1/96); cf. Traité I 114 = BMC 26 (1/96); SNG Kayhan -; SNG von Aulock -; Weber -. 0.35gr, 5mm
Near Very Fine.
From a Swiss private collection, before 2005. -
Sicily, Syracuse AE 23mm. Time of Agathokles, circa 295-289 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Draped bust of Artemis Soteira to right; quiver over shoulder, ΣΩTEIPA downwards before / Winged thunderbolt; AΓAΘOKΛEOΣ above, BAΣIΛEOΣ below. CNS II, 142; BAR Issue 33; SNG ANS 708; HGC 2, 1537. 8.38gr, 22mm, 5h
Very Fine. Green patina.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Thessaly, Larissa AR Drachm. Circa 356-342 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,755
Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly to the left, wearing ampyx, pendant earring, and simple necklace / [ΛΑΡΙΣ]-ΑΙΩΝ, horse grazing to right; below, branch. BCD I 1156; BCD II 320; HGC 4, 454. 6.12gr, 20mm, 6h
Good Extremely Fine. Attractively toned with traces of blue and gold iridescence around the devices.
From a European collection, acquired prior to 2005; Ex Nomos AG, Auction 21, 21 November 2020, lot 144 (dealer's ticket included).
