LOT 3230
Caria, Karyanda AE 9mm. Circa 400-390 BC.
Female head to right / KAP, head of eagle to left. Konuk 2012, 350, fig. 8; HNO Online 2160. Very Fine. Exceedingly rare city; the first specimen of this type to appear on the market.(0.63gr, 9mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AE 19mm. 121-110 BC. Antioch mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Diademed and radiate head to right / [B]AΣIΛEΩ[Σ] ANTIOX[OY EΠIΦANOYΣ], eagle standing to left, sceptre under far wing, date and symbols off flan/obscured. Cf. SC 2300.2; HGC 9, 1212; DCA 279. 4.96gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Purchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, September 2009. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 104, 15 December 2022, lot 522. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Berenike II, wife of Ptolemy III AE Dichalkon. Circa 244/3-221 BC. Uncertain mint on the Levantine Coast.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
ΒΕPENIKHΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ, diademed and draped bust of Berenike II to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, filleted cornucopiae. Svoronos 1054; CPE B454; SNG Copenhagen -; Weiser 82. 3.89gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Caria, Kaunos AE 11mm. 2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9
Diademed head of Apollo to right / K-AY(ligate), sword in sheath. BMC 17; SNG Copenhagen 187. 1.21gr, 11mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
