LOT 2610
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 454-404 BC.
Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Dewing 1591-8; SNG Copenhagen 31; HGC 4, 1597. Near Extremely Fine.(17.14gr, 22mm, 8h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a West London, UK, gentleman.
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Kings of Thrace. Lysimachos AE 20mm. Circa 306/5-301/0 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lysimacheia mint. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Lion leaping to right above spearhead to right; BAΣIΛEΩΣ above, ΛYΣIMAXOY below. SNG Copenhagen 1150; HGC 3.2, 1758. 4.89gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 27mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Wreathed and veiled head of Demeter to right / ΒΥZΑNT ΚΑΛΧΑΔ, Poseidon seated to right, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; ΔΑ in inner right field. Schönert-Geiss 1257-62; HGC 3.2, 1428. 11.10gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
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Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion AE 20mm. Circa 310-304/3 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Bearded head of satyr to right / Π-Α-Ν around forepart of griffin to left; below, sturgeon to left. Anokhin 1023; SNG BM Black Sea 869-71; SNG Stancomb 542; MacDonald 69; HGC 7, 113. 6.60gr, 20mm, 11h.
Near Extremely Fine.
From a private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. From Westminster collection, central London, UK.
