LOT 3350
Group of Twenty Five (25) Greek AE Coins. Circa 3rd-1st century BC.
Comprising: mixed rulers, issues, denominations and reverse types. As shown.(132gr total.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Thrace, Apollonia Pontika AR Drachm. Late 5th-4th centuries BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Upright anchor; crayfish to left, A to right / Facing head of Medusa with tongue protruding and snakes as hair. Topalov, Apollonia p. 337, 7; HGC 3.2, 1323. 3.04gr, 13mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Austran art market. Property of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
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Kings of Sophene, Mithradates II Philopator AE 18mm. Circa 89-after 85 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Bust to left, wearing bashlyk; uncertain countermark / [BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΙΘΡΙΔΑΤ ΦΙΛO], club within wreath. Kovacs 36. 4.30gr, 18mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Asia Minor, Uncertain Mint AR Hemiobol. 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Turreted head of female to right / Monogram; M below. CNG E-573, lot 279 var. (kerykeion, no M); CNG E-575, 174; otherwise, unpublished in the standard references. 0.29gr, 7mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
CNG note: 'Prior sales speculated this type may be of Pnytagoras of Salamis, but this was based on a vague similarity of the obverse type to some issues of that king, and an unlikely reading of the monogram as being formed of the letters ΠN.'
