LOT 3421
Group of Eight [8] India AR Fractions. Circa 18th-19th century AD.
Various types. Condition as seen.(3.22gr total.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Cyclades, Andros AE 17mm. Circa 200-180 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Head of young Dionysos to right, wearing ivy-wreath; c/m: kantharos / Filletted thyrsos; Α-Ν-Δ-ΡΙ across fields, bunch of grapes to right. BMC Crete pg. 86, 14; Joy 510; SNG Copenhagen 613; HGC 6, 472; for countermark see Tselekas & Papageorgiadou-Banis, Countermarks on the Hellenistic coinages of the Cyclades in ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 53, p. 159. 4.11gr, 17mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare countermarked Cycladic bronze.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Time of Philip V and Perseus AE Unit. 187-168 BC. Uncertain mint in Macedon.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head of Zeus to right / MA-KE-ΔO-NΩN, thunderbolt; monogram below. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 1307. 10.15gr, 22mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AR Drachm. Struck under Philoxenos, circa 325-323 BC. Miletos mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, legs spread, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings, monogram of ΔΗ in left field. Price 2090; ADM I Series I. 4.21gr, 16mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex London, UK, collection, 2000s.
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