LOT 2694
Edom (Idumaea) or Arabia, Lihyan AR Drachm. Circa 350-250 BC.
Stylised helmetted head of Athena to right; O to upper right (= 'ayin?) / Incuse owl standing to right, head facing; to left, head of ram downward; Aramaic m'rb or m'db to right; all within incuse square. Huth 35 = NAC 46, lot 295; CNG 193, lot 124. Near Very Fine. Heavily scratched. Extremely rare.(4.03gr, 13mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXVII Online Sessions, 17 January 2024, lot 5325.
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Group of Ten [10] AE Greek Coins. 3rd-2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Various rulers and cities. 47.80gr total.
Fine to Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Phasael. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Petra mint; struck circa 5/4 BC. Laureate head to right / Crossed cornucopiae; Phaṣa in Aramaic between. CN 118a; Meshorer, Nabataea 64A. 2.37gr, 14mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Lesbos, Pyrrha AE 10mm. Circa 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Female head (Aphrodite or nymph Pyrrha?) to left, hair bound in sphendone / ΠΥP, goat standing to left; to left, scallop shell. BMC 1-2 var. (no symbol); HGC 6, 1060; SNG Copenhagen 428. 1.37gr, 10mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Very rare mint.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
Pyrrha was a town on the coast of the deep bay on the west of the island of Lesbos, which had such a narrow entrance that it was called the Euripus of Pyrrha. In the Lesbian revolt the town sided with Mytilene, but was reconquered by Paches. By the time of the geographer Strabo the city no longer existed, but the suburbs and the harbour were still inhabited and Pliny reports that Pyrrha had been submerged by the sea (5.39).
