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LOT 3629
Group of Two [2] AR Tetradrachms of Kings of Parthia. 1st century BC.
Various types. Condition as seen.(23.65gr total.).
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London.
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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint 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 countermark / Oblong incuse punch; countermark: cf. 20. Carradice Type IV, Group B; BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 17. 5.54gr, 19mm.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Nabataea, Syllaios, Usurper AE 14mm. Circa 9-6 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Petra mint. Diademed head to right; [..]-ḥēth in Aramaic across fields. / Crossed cornucopiae; long torch between; shin-[...] in Aramaic across fields. Cf. CN 83 (letters at left on reverse); Meshorer, Nabataea -. 2.92gr, 14mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Extremely rare and apparently unpublished.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Kings of Cappadocia, Ariobarzanes II Philopator AR Drachm. 63-52 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Mint A (Eusebeia-Mazaka). Dated RY 7 (57/56 BC). Diademed head of Ariobarzanes to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIOBAPZANO ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ; Athena Nikephoros standing to left; in exergue, Z (date). Simonetta 1; HGC 7, 851. 3.61gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Die break on obverse, double struck on reverse.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
