LOT 3259
Cilicia, Uncertain Mint AR Tetartemorion. 4th century BC.
Female head facing, her hair in two hanging braids / The Persian Great King in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger in his right hand and bow in his left. Göktürk -; Troxell & Kagan 2 var. (hair style); Sunrise 97. Good Very Fine. Very rare Tetartemorion.(0.14gr, 6mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Caria, Heraclea Salbace AE 15mm. Circa time of Tiberius, AD 14-37. Pseudo-autonomous issue.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ (Apollonios, son of Apollonios), magistrate. AΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ, head of Dionysus(?) to right / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ, Zeus seated to right, holding Nike and long sceptre. RPC I, 2857; SNG Copenhagen 391. 3.40gr, 15mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 18mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H-F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 3.95gr, 18mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the private collection of Mr Brian Edwards, New Malden, Surrey, UK, formed from the late 1970s-early 1980s; thence by descent. -
Lesbos, Eresos(?) AE 9mm. Circa 3rd-2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Head of Hermes to right, wearing petasos / Grain ear; kerykeion to right. Apparently not in the standard references. 0.65gr, 9mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
