LOT 3204
Cilicia, Kelenderis AE 22mm. 2nd-1st centuries BC.
Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche to right; c/m: crested helmet to right, K-O flanking; all within circular incuse / ΚΕΛΕΝΔΕΡΙΤΩΝ, Apollo standing to left, holding branch tied with fillets, leaning on column upon which sits a tripod; ΜΩ(?) vertical to right. SNG BnF -; cf. SNG Levante Supp. 130. Near Very Fine. Very rare and unusual type for Kelenderis.(5.70gr, 22mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx Münzzentrum Rheinland.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Huldu AE 24mm. 9 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head or Aretas to right / Laureate, veiled, and draped bust of Huldu to right. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 79. 9.88gr, 24mm, 12h.
Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 37 (134/3 BC). Alexandreia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck / [ΠΤΟ]ΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; L ΛZ (date) to left, ΠA to right. Svoronos 1510; CPE II 1366; SNG Copenhagen -; DCA 54. 14.03gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Attractive old cabinet tone with blue iridescent highlights. Some roughness 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. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AR Tetradrachm. 281-261 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head to right / ΒAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind; to left, monogram of AP; to right, monogram of XA inside circle. SC 379.3c; HGC 9, 128g. 16.57gr, 28mm, 4h.
Very Fine. Toned. Well centred.
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.
