LOT 3063
Calabria, Tarentum AR Didrachm or Nomos. Circa 272-240 BC. Struck under the magistrate ΑΓΑΘΑΡΧΟΣ (Agatharchos). Reduced standard.
Nude youth on horseback to right, crowning horse and holding rein; beneath horse, AΓAΘ-A[P] XOΣ in two lines / TAPAΣ, Phalanthos, holding kantharos in outstretched right hand and cornucopia in left, on dolphin to left; to right, race torch. Vlasto 852-4; HN III 1028. Very Fine. Lightly toned. Minor flan flaws.(6.57gr, 20mm, 8h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy III Euergetes AE Tetrobol. 246-222 BC. Alexandreia mint. Series 4B.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing tainia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with closed wings standing to left, head to right, on thunderbolt; filleted cornucopia over shoulder, E between legs. CPE B366; Svoronos 974; SNG Copenhagen 224-6 (Ptolemy IV). 46.38gr, 36mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Pierced for suspension.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Second satrapy and kingship, struck circa 311-300 BC. Babylon I mint. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, 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 MHTP within wreath in left field, H beneath strut of throne. Price 3704; SC 82.6; HGC 9, 10f. 16.97gr, 26mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Light toning.
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. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VI Dionysos AE Serrate. 143-142 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Radiate and diademed head to right / Elephant advancing to left, holding torch in trunk; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ in two lines above, ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ in two lines below, ΣTA above cornucopia to right. SC 2006a; HGC 9, 1043. 8.47gr, 23mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection.
