LOT 2685
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 Very Fine.(16.44gr, 23mm, 10h.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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Skythia, Olbia Cast AE Dolphin. Circa 500-450/25 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Dolphin / Dolphin. SNG Stancomb 334-337; SNG BM Black Sea 359-367. 2.43gr, 31mm x 11mm.
Very Fine.
Acquired Munich, Germany, in the early 1990s. From a private German collection. Property of a Kent, UK, lady collector since 2015.
The method of casting this unique type of coin was adopted by the Gallic Celts who originally came from this region. Dolphins were generally struck in the form of a tree attached to the tail, although some examples appear to have been cast individually. -
Kings of Thrace, Lysimachos AR Tetradrachm. 305-281 BC.
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £675
Magnesia ad Maeandrum mint. Struck circa 297/6-282/1 BC. Diademed head of Alexander the Great to right with horn of Ammon over his ear / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛΥΣIMAXOΥ, Athena seated to left on throne, leaning her left elbow on her shield decorated with lion's head and holding Nike, crowning the king's name, in her outstretched right hand, behind, transverse spear with point below left; in the outer left field, torch, in inner left field, monogram of ΠYP. Müller 443a var. (slightly differing monogram); Thompson 115. 16.81gr, 29mm, 11h.
Near Extremely Fine. Beautiful toning. Well-centred.
Ex collection of Georges Müller, numismatist. -
Phrygia, Apameia AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. Circa 88-67 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
ΔΙΟΤΡΕΦΗΣ (Diotrephes), magistrate. Basket (cista mystica), with half-open lid, from which snake coils, around, ivy wreath with fruits / Two snakes coiled around a bow case ornamented with aplustre, and containing a strung bow, between the snake heads, ΔIOTPEΦOYΣ in two lines, AΠA to left, two flutes to right. BMC 16; SNG Copenhagen 153. 12.24gr, 26mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; only one other example on CoinArchives (Roma, E-89, 448).
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
