LOT 3113
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. Very Fine.(3.15gr, 17mm.).
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 2000s.
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Sasanian Kingdom. Peroz I AR Drachm. AD 457/9-484.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
AT (Ādurbādagān) mint. Bust to right, wearing crown, frontal crescent, and korymbos set on crescent / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SNS III, type IIa/1e. 4.17gr, 28mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market before 2000. Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
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Phoenicia, Sidon AR 1/16 Shekel. Time of Ba`alsillem (Sakton) I-Ba'ana, circa 425-401 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Galley sailing to left before city wall with three towers; below, lion recumbent to left / The Persian Great King standing to right, drawing bow; to left, incuse head of Bes; to right, incuse head of ibex. E&E-S Group III.3.a; Betlyon 10; HGC 10, 230. 0.48gr, 9mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Pontos, Amisos AE 20mm. Struck under Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 100-95 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Wreathed head of Mithradates VI as young Dionysos to right / ΑΜΙΣΟΥ, panther skin and thyrsos on cista mystica; monogram of HTPK to left. Malloy 26c; HGC 7, 243. 7.96gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
