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LOT 3428
Group of Eight [8] AR Sigloi of Achaemenid Empire. 5th-4th century BC.
Various types. Condition as seen.(44.41gr total.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3428
Group of Eight [8] AR Sigloi of Achaemenid Empire.
Estimate £250 - 350€290 - 410 (for guidance only)$340 - 470 (for guidance only)
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Kingdom of Persis. Ardaxsir (Artaxerxes) IV AR Hemidrachm. Late 2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Diademed bust to left, wearing korymbos; [symbol?] to right / Crowned and diademed head to left. Cf. Alram 652 (triple pellets). 0.91gr, 15mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Ionia, Smyrna AE Homereion. Circa 105-95 BC. ΑΠΑΤΟΥΡΙΟΣ (Apatourios), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Laureate head of Apollo to right / ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΑΠΑΤΟΥΡΙΟΣ, Homer seated to left, resting chin on hand and holding scroll; monogram of ΠΑΡ to left. Milne, Autonomous, Period XIII, 278. 7.99gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Lovely dark green and brown patina.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
Strabo mentions specifically this issue of bronze coinage from Smyrna when, discussing the city, he says "there is also a library; and the 'Homereum', a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called a Homereum" (Strabo, Geographica XIV, I.37, transl. by H.C. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, VI [Loeb, 1960], pp. 245-247). -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
BACIΛЄധC AΓPIΠA, canopy / Three ears of corn; L Ϛ (date) across fields. RPC I 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 2.76gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
