LOT 3068
Islands off Ionia, Samos AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 3 (452/1 BC) (restoration era date).
Facing lion scalp / Forepart of ox to right; ΣA above, olive branch to left, Γ (date) below; all within incuse square. Barron Class VII, 72a (A33/P72) (this coin); Slg. O'Hagan 591 (this coin); Coll. Berlin (Fox coll.); HGC 6, 1190. Near Extremely Fine. Amazing old cabinet tone. Well centred and of fine style. Extremely rare date (no other examples on CoinArchives).(12.96gr, 24mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceEx Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 23 March 1896, lot 592.
Ex Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 4 May 1908, lot 591.
From Hyman Montagu (1844-1895) collection.
From Henry Osborne O'Hagan, Esq. (1853-1930) collection.
Ex Cahn, 1951.
Ex Bourgey Emile, Collection de Monnaies Grecques Gauloise-romaines, Hôtel Drouot Sale, Paris, 13 June 1952, lot 127.
Ex Münzen & Medaillen, Basel.
From Rollin & Feuardent (William Talbot Ready), London.
Acquired privately from Jean Vinchon, Paris.
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LOT 3068
Islands off Ionia, Samos AR Tetradrachm.
Estimate £10,000 - 14,000€11,600 - 16,240 (for guidance only)$13,500 - 18,900 (for guidance only)
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 256-246 BC. Antioch ad Orontem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
Diademed head of Antiochos II to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; ΛΕ to outer left and monogram of monogram within circle to outer right. Cf. SC 571.4a (slightly different monogram to outer right); HGC 9, 238. 16.25gr, 26mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Mysia, Kyzikos AR Obol. Circa 475-400 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Forepart of boar to left with short mane and dotted truncation, retrograde E on shoulder; to right, tunny fish upwards / Head of roaring lion to left with bristling mane, outstretched tongue, and dotted truncation; all within incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX Kyzikos, Gruppe II 11; SNG France 378. 0.76gr, 13mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (AD 41/2). Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
BACIΛЄധC 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. 2.19gr, 16mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
