LOT 3215
Edom (Idumaea) AR Quarter Shekel-Drachm. 4th century BC. Imitating Athens.
Helmeted head of Athena to right, degraded to blank dome-like surface / Owl standing to right, head facing; olive spray and crescent to left. GTvA 12-20; HGC 10, 617. Good Fine. Surfaces corroded.(2.19gr, 12mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Mysia, Kyzikos AR Hemiobol. Circa 500-450 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Forepart of boar to left, retrograde K on shoulder; to right, tunny fish upwards / Head of roaring lion to left with bristling mane, and dotted truncation, in upper left field, facing head of panther; all within incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX Kyzikos, Gruppe II 13; SNC BnF 386. 0.39gr, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AE 18mm. 261-246 BC. Uncertain mint, possibly Tralleis.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Laureate head of Apollo to right / BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY, tripod; monogram of ΓΡΥ to outer left and monogram of OYI to outer right; below, anchor to right. SC 537.2; HGC 9, 253b. 3.90gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Nabataea, Malichos I(?) AE 16mm. 60-30 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Diademed head to right / Palm of hand; [legend and year around and across field]. Cf. HGC 10, 685. 2.84gr, 16mm, 1h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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