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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Ionia, Kolophon AR Tetartemorion. Circa 530-500 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Archaic head of Apollo(?) to left / Quadripartite incuse square punch. Kim & Kroll 84-103; SNG Kayhan 343-7; SNG von Aulock 1810. 0.23gr, 5mm.
Extremely Fine. Toned. Sharply struck and well-centred.
Acquired in London in 2011. Private collection, Switzerland. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy Apion (as King of Kyrenaika) AE Chalkous. Circa 104/1-96 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Kyrene mint. Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon to right / BAΣIΛE ΠTOΛ, headdress of Isis. Asolati 113; Svoronos 1845 (Ptolemy XIII, Alexandreia); SNG Copenhagen 685 ff. (Ptolemy IX, uncertain mint on Cyprus). 2.25gr, 13mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
South Arabia. Himyar, 'Amdan Bayan Yahaqbid AR Unit. Circa AD 100-120.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £18
Raidan mint. Bare head to right, within dotted border terminated by monogram / Small head to right; South Arabian legend around; 'sceptre' to right. CAF 3.4i; Huth 437-43; SNG ANS 1602-9. 0.98gr, 13mm, 3h.
Good Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
