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LOT 3794
Group of Five [5] Sasanian Kingdom AR Drachms. 6th-7th century AD.
Various mints. Very Fine.(20.44gr total.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK market before 2000.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
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Arabia, Mleiha. Imitative Abi'el BI Tetradrachm. Circa 1st century BC-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress; dot on cheek / Figure seated to left, holding sceptre and horse in outstretched hand; 'b'l in Aramaic to right, palm tree before, trident-like symbol in inner left field, pellets behind, above and beneath strut of throne. Cf. Huth 130-5; HGC 10, 689. 16.36gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left; countermarks: 50, 96 and uncertain / Oblong incuse punch; countermarks: 116 and uncertain (cf. 195 & 46). Carradice Type IV, Group B; BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 19. 5.48gr, 15mm.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
The numbering of countermarks’ varieties has been done according to the chart published in BMC Arabia, p. cxxxvii. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. 37-43 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Jerusalem mint. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). BAC[IΛЄധC AΓPI]ΠA, 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. 2.59gr, 17mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
