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LOT 3122
Islands off Attica, Aegina AR Stater. Circa 525-475 BC.
Sea turtle, head in profile, with thin collar and row of dots down its back / Incuse square with mill-sail pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIa-b; Milbank pl. I, 11; Asyut Group IV; HGC 6, 429. Near Very Fine.(12,22gr, 20mm.).
ProvenanceEx Emporium Hamburg, Alpha Auction 10, 8 January 2023, lot 73.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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Nabataea, Aretas IV AE 11mm. Struck circa 8/7 BC–AD 15/6. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Laureate head to right / Uncertain bell-shaped object with five fringes; 'Hagra' in Aramaic below. CN 149; Meshorer, Nabataea 87. 1.48gr, 11mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Phrygia, Eumeneia AE 19mm. After 133 BC. ΔΙΟΦΑΝ- (Diophan-), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Helmetted head of Athena to right / EYM[E]-NEΩN ΔIOΦA, Nike advancing to left, holding wreath and palm branch. BMC 7-8. 6.26gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera AE Obol-40 Drachmai. Circa 51-30 BC. Alexandria mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Diademed and draped bust to right / [KΛEOΠATPAC] BAC[IΛICCHC], eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; double cornucopiae to left, M (mark of value) to right. Svoronos 1872; Weiser 184-5; SNG Copenhagen 422-4; Noeske 383. 5.89gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
