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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Aeolis, Kyme AR Tetradrachm. Circa 155-143 BC. ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΣ (Olympios), magistrate. Stephanophoric type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Head of the Amazon Kyme to right, wearing taenia / ΚΥΜΑΙΩΝ, horse prancing to right; one-handled cup below, ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟC in exergue; all within laurel wreath. E-E&E-Ö, Phase II, 9, no. 18 (same obverse die); Oakley obv. die 51; BMC 80; SNG Copenhagen -. 16.61gr, 30mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Toned. Die break on obverse.
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. -
Aeolis, Kyme AR Tetartemorion. Circa 480-450 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Head of horse to left / Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Rosen -; Klein 332 var. (hemiobol; head of horse to right). 0.18gr, 6mm.
Near Extremely Fine. Nicely toned.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera AE Obol-40 Drachmai. Circa 51-30 BC. Alexandria mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Diademed and draped bust to right / [KΛEOΠATPAC] BAC[IΛICCHC], eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; double cornucopiae to left, M (mark of value) to right. Svoronos 1872; Weiser 184-5; SNG Copenhagen 422-4; Noeske 383. 5.89gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
