LOT 4254
India, Indo-Sasanian Gadhiya Paisa BI Drachm. Circa AD 950-1050.
Indo-Sasanian style bust to right; pellets and ornaments around / Stylised fire altar; pellets around. Mitchiner, Non-Islamic 422-4. Very Fine.(4.03gr, 14mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £293
BACIΛЄധC AΓPIΠA, canopy / Three ears of corn; L Ϛ (date) across fields. RPC I, 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 3.04gr, 18mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy VI Philometor AE Obol. First sole reign, 180-170 BC. Cyprus mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt; lotus flower in left field, EYΛ between legs; c/m: Seleukid anchor within rectangular incuse. Svoronos 1398 (Ptolemy VI with Eulaios); Lorber, Lotus Series VI.3; Weiser 152 (Ptolemy VI with Eulaios); SNG Copenhagen 294; Noeske -. 15.56gr, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AR Obol. 336-323 BC. Uncertain mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; uncertain controls. Cf. HGC 3.1, 918. 0.64gr, 9mm, 3h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
