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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Paphlagonia, Sinope AE 20mm. Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 120-111 or 110-100 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Head of Artemis to right wearing stephane; bow and quiver over shoulder / ΣINΩ-ΠHΣ, tripod-lebes. SNG BM Black Sea 1524; HGC 7, 417. 8.14gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Kings of Parthia, Sinatrukes AR Drachm. 93-69 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rhagai. Diademed and draped bust to left, wearing tiara / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOV APΣAKOY ΘEOΠATOPOY NIKATOPOΣ, archer (Arsakes I) seated to right, holding bow. Sellwood 33.4 ('Gotarzes I'); Shore 114 ('Gotarzes I'); Sunrise 302. 4.06gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very fine.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Artaxerxes I to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 450-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IIIb (late). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding transverse spear and bow / Oblong incuse punch; countermarks: 22 & 41. Carradice Type IIIb; BMC Arabia pl. XXIV, 16. 5.63gr, 15mm.
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.
