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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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Thrace, Ainos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 405-357 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Head of Hermes facing three-quarters to left, wearing petasos / Goat standing to right; AINION above, Corinthian helmet before. May 413 (A.249/P.292); HGC 3.2, 1278. 14.68gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Delamination on obverse.
From the Thrax Collection, formed in London between 1991 and 2018. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 58, 20 June 2019, lot 469. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
[BACIΛЄധ]C AΓPIΠA, canopy / Three ears of corn; L [Ϛ] (date) across fields. RPC I 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. 2.75gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 13mm. Struck circa AD 17/8-39/40. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Aretas in military dress, standing to left, holding spear and scabbard; palm branch to left, het in Nabataean in upper right field / Shaqilat, veiled and wearing Isis-headdress, standing to left, raising hand, wreath in left field, 'Shuqailat' in Nabataean in three lines in right field. Meshorer, Nabataea 97; CN Type 187d. 2.07gr, 13mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
