LOT 2927
Illyria, Dyrrhachion AR Drachm. Circa 80/70-60/55 BC. ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΣ and ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ (Meniskos and Dionysios), magistrates.
ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΣ, cow standing to right, head turned to nudge suckling calf standing to left below; bird above / ΔΥΡ ΔΙΟ-ΝΥ-ΣIOY, double stellate pattern within double linear quadrangle. BMC 62; Meta V/86; Maier 201. Near Very Fine.(3.20gr, 17mm, 1h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IX Eusebes Philopator (Kyzikenos) AE 17mm. 114-95 BC. Uncertain mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Laureate head of Apollo to right / Artemis standing facing, wearing short tunic and boots, holding spear and bow; BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ to left, uncertain control in outer left field. SC 2379; HGC 9, 1253 (R2). 4.74gr, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Time of Philip V to Perseus AE Unit. 187-168 BC. Amphipolis mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Head of river god Strymon to right, wearing grain wreath / MAKE-ΔONΩN, ornamented trident head; monogram to left and right. HGC 3.1, 334. 7.45gr, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Seleukid Empire, Seleukos II Kallinikos AR Tetradrachm. Struck before 240-235 BC. Uncertain mint 36, perhaps in Cilicia.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΕΛ-ΕΥΚΟΥ, Apollo standing facing, head to left, holding arrow in his right hand and resting left elbow on tall tripod; to inner left, monogram of MH; to outer right, monogram of ΔΙ. SC 676.2; Newell, ESM 1641; HGC 9, 303m. 15.96gr, 27mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Areas of delamination on reverse.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
