LOT 3709
Crusaders. Bohémond III BI Denier. 1163-1201.
Antioch (Principality) mint. ✠ BOA[...]VHDVS, helmeted head to left, between crescent and five-pointed star / ✠ ANTIOCHIA, cross pattée, crescent in second angle. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades, class C, 384; cf. CCS 66b. Good Very Fine.(0.97gr, 17mm, 9h). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market;
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Feudal France. Normandy AR Billon Dinar. Circa 1050-1060.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Time of William the Conqueror. Cross with pellet in each angle within inner circle, remains of legend around / Cross with annulet in each angle within inner circle, remains of legend around. 0.58gr, 19mm
Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, 1980s. -
Sasanian Kingdom, Sabuhr (Shahpur) AV Dinar. AD 240-272.
Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
Mint I ("Ctesiphon"). Phase 2, circa AD 260-272. mzdysn bgy šhpwhry MRK'n MRK' 'yr'n MNW ctry MN yzd'n in Pahlavi, diademed bust to right, wearing mural crown with korymbos; one pellet above and two pellets below diadem ties / nwr'zy in Pahlavi to right, šhpwhry in Pahlavi to left; fire altar flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns; fravahr to left of flames. SNS type IIc/1b, style P, group d/1; Saeedi AV5; Sunrise 740. 7.44gr, 22mm, 3h
Extremely Fine.
From a Swiss private collection, before 2005. -
Spain. Philip IV AE 8 Maravedis. 1621-1665.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £29
Royal mint of Segovia. Dated 1623. PHILIPPVS · III · D · G, castle in crowned shield; to left, mintmark; to right, VIII (mark of value); c/m: uncertain / HISPANIARVM · REX, lion in crowned shield, date at right; c/m: crown above uncertain date. 6.44gr, 27mm, 12h
Good Very Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.
