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LOT 2742
Indo-Greek Kingdom, Philoxenos Aniketos AE Double Unit(?). Circa 125-110 BC. Square module.
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΥ, Tyche standing to left, raising hand and holding cornucopia; monogram to lower left / Zebu standing to right; Σ below. Bopearachchi 10H; SNG ANS 1209-14; HGC 12, 274. Very Fine.(8.56gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired from CGB.
From the Nick Collins collection.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 78, 17 December 2020, lot 700.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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LOT 2742
Indo-Greek Kingdom, Philoxenos Aniketos AE Double Unit(?).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
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Thrace, Chersonesos AR Hemidrachm. Circa 386-338 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Forepart of lion to right, head reverted to left / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; pellet and uncertain design in opposite sunken quarters. HGC 3.2, 1437. 2.28gr, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy I Soter AE Diobol. Struck circa 294-282 BC. Alexandreia mint. Series 2Di.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle with spread wings standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, monogram of ΠΑM. CPE B55 (slighlty different monogram); Svoronos 206, pl.viii, 4; SNG Copenhagen 91-3. 16.28gr, 28mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy I Soter AE Obol. Struck circa 290-282 BC. Alexandreia mint. Pre-Reform, Series 1.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Head of the deified Alexander to right, wearing elephant skin headdress / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with open wings standing to left on thunderbolt; monogram of XA to left. CPE B43; Svoronos 235; Weiser -; SNG Copenhagen 54-5; Noeske 33. 7.41gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
