LOT 3220
Ionia, Miletos AE 15mm. Circa 350-300 BC. Uncertain magistrate.
Lion standing to left, head turned back / Stellate pattern. For the type cf. BMC 47; cf. Deppert Milet 279-280. Near Very Fine.(2.04gr, 15mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Euboia, Histiaia AR Tetrobol. Circa 196-146 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Wreathed head of the nymph Histiaia to right / The nymph Histiaia seated to right on stern of galley, holding stylis; wing on galley, IΣTI-AIEΩN around. HGC 4, 1525. 1.97gr, 13mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Mysia. Astyra, Tissaphernes AE 11mm. Circa 400-395 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
[TIΣΣA], bare, bearded head of Tissaphernes to right / ΑΣΤΥΡΗ, facing cult statue of Artemis Astyrene, wearing polos and with fillets hanging from wrists; to upper right, vertical club. Klein 253; SNG Arikantürk 331-61; SNG BnF 124A. 1.52gr, 11mm, 8h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
Astyra was a small town of Mysia, in the plain of Thebes, between Antandros and Adramyteion. It had a temple of Artemis, of which the Antandrii had the superintendence, and Artemis had hence the name of ΑΡΤΕΜΙΣ ΑΣΤΥΡΗΝΗ (Artemis Astyrene), as it appears on our coin. -
Kings of Thrace, Lysimachos AE 23mm. Struck after 301 BC. Uncertain mint in Western Anatolia.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Male head in peaked Phrygian helmet to right / Trophy; [BAΣ]ΙΛΕΩΣ to left, [ΛYΣI]MAXOY to right. SNG Copenhagen 1164; HGC 3.2, 1755. 6.22gr, 23mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine.
Purchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, March 2009. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 104, 15 December 2022, lot 217. Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
