LOT 2968
Galatia, Tavium AE 19mm. 1st century BC.
Zebu bull springing to right / TAVIΩN, amphora between two pilei of Dioskouroi surmounted by star. BMC 1. Very Fine. Extremely rare.(5.23gr, 19mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a UK gallery.
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Seleukid Empire, Seleukos II Kallinikos AE Trichalkon. Struck circa 246-242 BC. Sardes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Helmeted head of Athena to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Apollo Delphios, nude, standing to left, testing arrow in his right hand, and leaning on bow to right. SC 659.1; SNG Spaer 452; Newell 1654; HGC 9, 321. 7.63gr, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Sasanian Kingdom. Bahram II, with Queen and Prince 4 AR Drachm. AD 276-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Jugate busts of Bahram II, wearing winged crown with korymbos, and his queen, wearing kolah with boar's head, to right, vis-a-vis cuirassed bust of Prince 4, wearing kolah with eagle's head and presenting a wreath to the royal couple, to left / Fire altar with ribbon; flanked by Bahram on the left and his queen on the right, holding ring; to left of flames, fravahr symbol. Cf. SNS type VII/5; cf. Göbl type X/3. 4.38gr, 29mm, 2h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market circa 2015. Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy I Soter AR Tetradrachm. Struck circa 294-282 BC. Uncertain mint 10 on Cyprus (Salamis or Kition).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head to right, aegis around neck / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle, with closed wings, standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, ΣT above monogram of ΠΑ. CPE 235; Svoronos 368; SNG Copenhagen 87. 14.08gr, 27mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
