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LOT 3416
Group of Seven [7] Judaea AE Prutot. 1st century AD.
Various types. Condition as seen.(14.87gr total.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Ionia, Ephesos AR Diobol. Circa 390-330 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Bee / Two stag's heads facing one another; ΕΦ above. SNG Kayhan 194-207; SNG Copenhagen 243. 0.95gr, 10mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Seleukid Empire, Alexander I Balas AE Serrate. 152-145 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Diademed head of Alexander I to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Athena standing to left, holding Nike in right hand, left hand resting on shield set on ground; in inner left field, KA monogram above ΠΟ monogram. SC 1793.3d; BMC 37; HGC 9, 900. 9.09gr, 22mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
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).
