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LOT 2649
Ilyria, Dyrrhachion AR Drachm. Circa 3rd-1st century BC. Contemporary imitation.
Cow standing to right, looking back at suckling calf standing to left below; blundered legend above, ornament behind / Double stellate pattern in double linear square; blundered legend around. For prototype cf. HGC 3, 40. Good Fine.(2.90gr, 17mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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Kingdom of Macedon, Perseus AE Unit. 179-168 BC. Uncertain Macedonian mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Head of hero Perseus to right, wearing winged Phrygian helmet, harpa before / B-A, eagle with wings spread standing facing on thunderbolt, head to right; monogram of ΠEP to right. HGC 3.1, 1099. 6.58gr, 18mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Phoenicia, Sidon AE 16mm. 110-52 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Struck CY 55(?) (57/6 BC). Turretted, veiled, and draped bust of Tyche to right / Phoenician galley to left; above, date above ΣΙΔΩΝΙΩΝ; Phoenician legend below. Cf. HGC 10, 292. 3.41gr, 16mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VI Philometor Fourrée Tetradrachm Core. Imitating Salamis mint, dated RY 7 (AD 164/3).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Diademed head to right, wearing aegis around neck / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY, L Z (Z reversed) Σ Α flanking eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt. For prototype cf. Svoronos 1333. 12.93gr, 23mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
