LOT 3189
Islands off Caria. Rhodos, Rhodes AE 27mm. Circa 120-84 BC.
Radiate head of Helios to right / Rose. With different symbols on reverse see SNG Copenhagen 852; BMC 322; SNG von Aulock 2834. Fine.(14.07gr, 27mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the European coin market.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Phrygia, Apameia AE 24mm. Circa 88-40 BC. ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕΟΥΣ (Antiphon, son of Menekles), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Bust of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet and aegis / AΠAMEΩN, eagle, with star above, alighting on base of maeander pattern flanked by Caps of the Dioscuri; ΑΝΤΙΦΩΝ ΜΕΝΕΚΛΕΟΥΣ in two lines below. SNG Copenhagen 164; HGC 7, 67. 9.00gr, 24mm, 2h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Sasanian Kingdom. Peroz I AR Drachm. AD 457/9-484.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
AS (Aspahān) mint. Struck circa AD 477-484. Bust to right, wearing crown with two wings, frontal crescent, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbon over each shoulder / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. Göbl type III/1; SNS III type IIIb/1c. 4.10gr, 28mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK market before 2000. Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
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Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 104-76 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
'Yehonatan the High Priest and the Council of the Jews' in paleo-Hebrew within wreath / Two cornucopiae splayed outward, adorned with ribbons; pomegranate/poppy between. Hendin 6182; TJC R; Sofaer 355-369. 2.16gr, 15mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
