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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Cilicia, Tarsos AE 20mm. 164-27 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Turretted and veiled bust of Tyche to right / ΤΑΡΣEΩΝ, Sandan standing on back of horned and winged animal to right, wearing tall headdress, bow-case and sword, right hand raised, holding bipennis with left hand; ЄΠΙ ΓЄ in two lines to left. SNG BnF -; SNG Levante -; BMC 102. 5.58gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
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. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 103-76 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Star within dotted circle; legend around / Anchor within circle; legend around. Cf. Hendin 6191a; cf. Meshorer Group L. 1.44gr, 14mm.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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