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LOT 2599
Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion AE 20mm. Circa 310-304/3 BC.
Bearded head of satyr to right / Π-Α-Ν around forepart of griffin to left; below, sturgeon to left. Anokhin 1023; SNG BM Black Sea 869-71; SNG Stancomb 542; MacDonald 69; HGC 7, 113. Near Extremely Fine.(6.60gr, 20mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
From Westminster collection, central London, UK.
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Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 25mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Wreathed and veiled head of Demeter to right / ΒΥZΑNT ΚΑΛΧΑΔ, Poseidon seated to right, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left. Schönert-Geiss 1276-82; HGC 3.2, 1428. 12.47gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left; unlisted countermark on rim / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IV, Group B; BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 26. 5.40gr, 16mm.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
The numbering of countermarks’ varieties has been done according to the chart published in BMC Arabia, p. cxxxvii. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AR Tetradrachm. 138-129 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Antioch on the Orontes mint. Diademed head to right / Athena Nikephoros standing to left, resting hand on shield and spear under arm; ΒAΣΙΛEΩΣ ΑNTIOXOY in right field, EVEPΓETOV in left field; to outer left, mint monogram above monogram; O to inner right; all within wreath. SC 2061.4c; Lorber, Die, 751 (obv. die A97); HGC 9, 1067d. 16.66gr, 28mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Toned; short flan crack.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 560, 17 April 2024, lot 221.
