LOT 2611
Greek Coins - Thrace - Byzantium - Large Poseidon AE Unit Late 3rd-2nd century B.C.
Obv: Veiled head of Demeter right, wearing grain wreath. Rev: BYZAN / KAΛXAΔ. Poseidon seated right on rocks, holding aphlaston and trident. Good very fine.(10.32 grams, 23 mm.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an old UK collection.
From the collection of an London antiquarian.
SNG BM Black Sea 82-3, HGC 3.2, 1428.
FootnotesVery interesting coin, issued to commemorate the alliance signed between the cities of Byzantion and Kalchedon, located in opposite banks of the Bosphorus strait.
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LOT 2611
Greek Coins - Thrace - Byzantium - Large Poseidon AE Unit
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Ancient Greek Coins - Lucania - Poseidonia Paestum - Poseidon AE15 c.420-390 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Lucania, Poseidonia-Paestum. Obv: Poseidon walking right, wearing chlamys, striking with trident, left arm extended. Rev: bull butting right, head facing. 2.39 grams, 15 mm.
Fair.
Received by gift from Professor Alan Thompson. Wicklow, Ireland, sold at auction between 1935-1939. From the collection of the late Dr JDH Widdness, Dublin, Ireland. Accompanied by a handwritten slip with notes on the coin and a card with initialled provenance. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonian - Phillip II - Youth on Horseback AE18 359-336 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Obv: head of Apollo facing right, hair bound with a taenia. Rev: a naked youth on horseback to right. 6.59 grams, 17 mm.
Choice good very fine.
Acquired from Coincraft, London, UK, with stock no.G3507. Property of a private Norwich, UK, collector. Accompanied by a Coincraft catalogue item cutting. -
Greek Coins - Thasos - Herakles AR Tetradrachm After 148 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Obv: head of young Dionysus right, wreathed with ivy. Rev: HRAKLEOYS SWTHROS QASIQN legend to left, right and beneath Herakles standing facing, naked, head left, holding club and lionskin, monogram to left and right. 10.58 grams, 31 mm.
Fine.
From an old UK collection. From the collection of a London antiquarian.
