LOT 3118
Boeotia, Thebes AR Stater. Circa 390-382 BC. Wast(ias), magistrate.
Boeotian shield / Volute krater with a decorated upper half, barley grain above, FA-ΣT across central field; all within shallow incuse circle. Hepworth 36; BCD Boiotia 494; BMC 120; HGC 4, 1330. Near Extremely Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone with blue iridescence around the devices on obverse and gold on reverse.(12.14gr, 22mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceEx A. A. Ravel, 1938.
Ex Pozzi 1443v TTB.
Ex Prunier Auction, Numismatic Auction June 2022, 27 June 2022, lot 198.
Acquired from Pecunia Numismatics.
Wastias was the pro-Spartan rival of Androkleidas and was instrumental in the latter's exile and assassination.
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Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AR Drachm. Struck under Menander, circa 324/3 BC. Sardes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, legs spread, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; monogram of EY in left field, rose beneath throne. Price 2553; ADM I Series IX. 4.26gr, 16mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex London, UK, collection, 2000s. -
Gaul, Nemausus AE Unit. Circa 100-60 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Laureate head of Apollo to left / Boar standing to left, NAMA above, ΣAT below. LT 2698; RIG 210. 1.67gr, 15mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex cgb.fr. (bga_197820). From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos (Auletes) AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 21 (61/0 BC). Alexandreia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, L KA (date), ΠA to right. Svoronos 1868 (Kleopatra VII); CPE II 1684; SNG Copenhagen 391; DCA2 1149. 13,81gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Toned.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
