LOT 2698
Bithynia, Kalchedon AR Stater. Circa 367-340 BC.
Rhodian standard. Bull standing to left on grain ear right; KAΛX above, BA monogram to left / Quadripartite incuse square with stippled surface. SNG von Aulock 486. Near Very Fine.(14.72gr, 21mm.).
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London.
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LOT 2698
Bithynia, Kalchedon AR Stater.
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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Cilicia, Kelenderis AR Stater. Circa 410-375 BC.
Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £360
Nude youth, holding whip, dismounting from horse rearing to right / ΚΕΛΕΝ, goat kneeling to left, head to right; all within shallow incuse circle. Casabonne Type 4; Celenderis -; SNG BnF 75 = Traité II, 1477. 10.75gr, 20mm, 2h.
Good Very Fine.
Swiss private collection, acquired in 1993. -
Kings of Cappadocia, Ariobarzanes II Philopator AR Drachm. 63-52 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Mint A (Eusebeia-Mazaka). Dated RY 7 (57/56 BC). Diademed head of Ariobarzanes to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIOBAPZANO ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ; Athena Nikephoros standing to left; in exergue, Z (date). Simonetta 1; HGC 7, 851. 3.61gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Die break on obverse, double struck on reverse.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 18mm. 9 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Petra mint; struck AD 20-40. Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H-F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114; cf. SNG ANS 1438-43; cf. Sofaer 67-9. 4.11gr, 18mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
