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LOT 3677
Group of Eight [8] AR Sigloi of Achaemenid Empire. 5th-4th century BC.
Various types. Condition as seen.(44.89gr total.).
ProvenanceEx 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Phoenicia, Tyre AE Shekel or Fourrée Shekel Core. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Uncertain date.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; [to left, date above club]; [to right, KP above monogram]; [Phoenician letter between legs]. Cf. DCA Tyre 952-4; cf. D. Hendin, "Bronze shekel of Jerusalem recently discovered" in The Celator 6.10 (October 1992), p. 36; cf. HGC 10, 357 (for type). 13.34gr, 24mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
E. Cohen, in DCA, lists these bronzes as fourrée cores. In his article in The Celator, though, D. Hendin notes that the surfaces of the bronze coin he observed had no indication that it was a fourrée core, and he contends that it is an official strike in bronze. -
Eastern Arabia, Mleiha. Imitative 'Abi'el BI Tetradrachm. 1st century-2nd century AD. In the types of Alexander III of Macedon and in the name of 'Abi'el.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Stylised head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Figure enthroned left, holding sceptre in left hand, right hand extended, upon which horse(?); palm to left, ^ below arm, HE monogram to inner left, Aramaic legend to right, 'b'l ('Abi'el). Huth 132; MacDonald, 'Abiel', Group D 1.4.2.a. 21.22gr, 25mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Artaxerxes I to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 450-375 BC. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IIIb (late).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Lydo-Milesian standard. 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. Carradice Type IIIb. 5.40gr, 14mm.
Near Very Fine. Countermarked.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
