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LOT 2709
Ionia, Kolophon AR Tetartemorion. Circa 530-500 BC.
Archaic head of Apollo(?) to left / Quadripartite incuse square punch. Kim & Kroll 84-103; SNG Kayhan 343-7; SNG von Aulock 1810. Extremely Fine. Toned. Sharply struck and well-centred.(0.23gr, 5mm.).
ProvenanceAcquired in London in 2011.
Private collection, Switzerland.
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Ionia, Teos AR Diobol. Circa 320-294 BC.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £23
ΜΕΝΤΩΡ (Mentor), magistrate. Griffin seated to right, right forepaw raised / ΤΗΙ ΜΕΝΤΩ[Ρ], chelys. Kinns 95 var. (magistrate's name downward to left). 0.92gr, 10mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Attractively toned with hints of blue iridescence around the devices on obverse.
Acquired in London in 2011. Private collection, Switzerland.
Teos came under the rule of the Achaemenids, when Cyrus II (559-529 BC) was king. The occupation by the Persians led to the exodus of a large part of the population of Teos, between 545 and 540 BC, to Thrace, where they participated in the rebuilding of the city of Abdera. The two cities struck similar silver coins with the depiction of the griffin, seated on the right for Teos and on the left for Abdera. -
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Thrace, Ainos AR Diobol. Circa 458/7-455/4 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Head of Hermes to right, wearing petasos / A-I, kerykeion within incuse square. May, Ainos 34-6; McClean 3810; HGC 3.2, 1273. 1.33gr, 9mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Kings of Cappadocia, Ariobarzanes II Philopator AR Drachm. 63-52 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Mint A (Eusebeia-Mazaka). Dated RY 7 (57/56 BC). Diademed head of Ariobarzanes to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIOBAPZANO ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ; Athena Nikephoros standing to left; in exergue, Z (date). Simonetta 1; HGC 7, 851. 3.61gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Die break on obverse, double struck on reverse.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
