LOT 2686
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.(17,17gr, 23mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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South Arabia. Himyar, 'Amdan Bayan Yahaqbid AR Unit. Circa AD 100-120.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £42
Raydan mint. Head to right within dotted circle interrupted by monogram to left / Small head to right; 'sceptre' to right. CAF 3.4i; Huth 441; SNG ANS 1595. 1.03gr, 14mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Asia Minor, Uncertain mint AR Diobol. 6th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
Stylised lion's head facing, wearing a five-spiked radiate crown / Rough incuse square. Rosen 395; E.S.G. Robinson, Coins from Al-Mina, NC 1937, p. 186; SNG Copenhagen (Cyprus) 385; Weber 4591; Klein 232. 1.38gr, 9mm.
Very Fine. A mysterious coin with an enigmatic design.
Acquired in London in 2011. Private collection, Switzerland. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos Fourrée Tetradrachm. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £159
Imitating Tyre mint issue, with uncertain date. In the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; to left, date in Phoenician. Cf. Price 3293. 12.81gr, 25mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Deposits on obverse.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
