LOT 3295
Group of Ten [10] Greek Caria Stratonikeia AE Units. 2nd century BC.
Comprising: mixed issues and reverse types. Condition as shown.(65.95gr total, 18-20mm.).
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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Aiolis, Kyme, AE 17mm. c.165-90 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Apatourios, magistrate, draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / KY, oinochoe; laurel branches flanking, A-ΠA/T-OY/P-I/O-Σ across inner fields. SNG Ashmolean 1416-8; SNG Copenhagen 106-7. 3.39gr, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, private collector. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IV Epiphanes AE 34mm. 169-168 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint. 'Egyptianizing' series.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Laureate head of Zeus-Serapis to right, wearing tainia with Osiris cap at tip / Eagle with closed wings standing to right on thunderbolt; BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ to left. SC 1413; Houghton 118; Newell, SMA 59; HGC 9, 643. 39.68gr, 34mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Axum, Ouzebas AE Unit. Late 4th-early 5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
⧾ •VΛZHⵎΛⵎ ⵎΛⵎIΛⵎVⵎ ('King Ouzebas'), draped bust of Ouzebas to right, wearing tight-fitting head cloth and circular earring; to left and right, ears of barley / ⧾ Τ•VΤ• ΛΡⵎⵎΗ TH XШΡΛ ('may this please the country'), draped bust of Ouzebas (or Ezanas?) to right, wearing tight-fitting head cloth and circular earring, within shallow round incuse inlaid in gold within circular border. Hahn, Aksumite, 26a; Munro-Hay, AC, 54. 2.06gr, 17mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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