LOT 3213
Islands off Cilicia, Elaioussa Sebaste AE 21mm. 1st century BC.
Laureate head of Zeus to right; E behind / EΛAIOYΣΣΙΩN, Nike advancing to left, holding wreath and palm frond; ΔIO to left. Ziegler 559-68 var. (controls); SNG BN 1131; SNG Levante 823. Near Very Fine.(6.53gr, 21mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx Münzzentrum Rheinland.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Judaea. Hasmoneans, Mattathias Antigonos (Mattatayah) AE Prutah. 40-37 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Splayed double cornucopiae with barley ear between the horns / 'Mattityah' (in Paleo-Hebrew) within wreath. Hendin GBC 6, 6199; Hendin GBC 5, 1164; TJC 40; Sofaer 438-445. 1.87gr, 12mm, 11h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea, Caesareia Maritima AE 'Minim'. 1st-3rd centuries AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Turretted head of Tyche(?) to right / Palm tree. Cf. Hamburger, “Minute Coins from Caesarea,” Atiqot I (1955), 22-23. 0.78gr, 13mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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 BACIΛICCHC], 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. 9.59gr, 22mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
