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LOT 3593
Group of Nine [9] AE Greek Coins. 3rd-1st century BC.
Comprising: various types, issues, denominations and reverse types. Condition as seen.(50.33gr total.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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Islands off Attica, Aegina AR Stater. Circa 525-475 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Sea turtle, head in profile / Incuse square with mill-sail pattern. Cf. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIa-b; cf. Milbank pl. I, 11; cf. Asyut Group IV; HGC 6, 429. 10.52gr, 20mm.
Good Fine.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VIII Epiphanes (Grypos) AE 19mm. 121/0-97/6 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint. Uncertain date of Seleukid Era.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Diademed and radiate head to right / BAΣIΛ[EΩΣ] ANTIO[XOY] EΠIΦAN[OYΣ], eagle standing to left, sceptre under far wing. HGC 9, 1212. 5.75gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Xerxes I to Darius II AR Siglos. Circa 485-420 BC. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Type IIIb (early), style B. Lydo-Milesian standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
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, Groups A/B. 5.49gr, 16mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Countermarks on reverse.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
