LOT 3173
Ionia, Erythrai AR Hemiobol. Circa 480-450 BC.
Rosette with central pellet-in-annulet / Eight-rayed star within incuse square. Klein 387; Kraay, Colophon 96 & 102; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Kayhan -. Good Very Fine.(0.37gr, 6mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Phoenicia. Byblos AR 1/16 Shekel. 4th century BC.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £15
Galley to left, containing two hoplites with helmets and round shields; hippocamp to left below / Lion attacking bull to left. Cf. HGC 10, 139. 0.56gr, 9mm, 6h.
Fine.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VI Dionysos AE Serrate. 143-142 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Radiate and diademed head to right / Elephant advancing to left, holding torch in trunk; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ in two lines above, ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ in two lines below, ΣTA above cornucopia to right. SC 2006a; HGC 9, 1043. 8.47gr, 23mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, private collection. -
Kings of Bithynia, Nikomedes IV Philopator AR Tetradrachm. Dated 207 BE (91/0 BC). Nikomedeia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Diademed head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟΥ, Zeus standing to left, holding long sceptre with left hand and wreath with right; to inner left, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt above monogram of MHN and ZΣ (date). Callataÿ p. 62 (dies D173/R9); Dewing 2160 (same dies); Hermitage Sale II, lot 1133 (same dies); DCA2 499; HGC 7, 646 (92/1 BC). 16,72gr, 33mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Toned, struck with worn obverse die.
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 late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
