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LOT 3782
Group of Six [6] Greek and Roman AR Coins. 4th century BC-3rd century AD.
Various types. Near Very Fine to Very Fine.(28.86gr total.).
ProvenanceFrom a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Seleucid Empire, Antiochos I, co-regent with Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. 294-281 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Susa mint; possibly struck in the final years of Seleukos I or early years of Antiochos I, 281-261 BC. In the name of Seleukos I and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; to left, monogram of KP; beneath throne, monogram of ΠΥΡ. SC - (cf. 399.5&7 for different secondary controls); HGC 9, 125c. 16.91gr, 26mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Double struck. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished variety.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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; uncertain countermarks (cf. 126 and 168) / Oblong incuse punch; countermarks: 116 and 202. Carradice Type IV, Group B. 5.44gr, 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. -
Sicily, Gela AE Onkia. Circa 420-405 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Bull butting to right; grain ear and ΓΕΛΑΣ above, pellet (mark of value) in exergue / Head of river-god Gelas to right, grain ear behind. Jenkins 506-8; HGC 2, 383. 1.27gr, 11mm, 10h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 70, 7 May 2020, lot 367 (company's ticket included). Ex Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, E-Auction 77, 1 December 2019, lot 820 (company's ticket included).
