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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Phrygia, Apameia, AE 20mm. c.133-48 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Andron- and Alkio- magistrates, laureate head of Zeus right / ΑΝΔΡΟΝ ΑΛΚΙΟ, cult statue of Artemis Anaïtis facing. SNG Copenhagen 177; SNG von Aulock 8338. 7.30gr, 24mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Property of a London, UK, private collector. -
Mysia, Gambrion AE 15mm. 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Laureate head of Apollo to right / ΓΑΜ, twelve-rayed star. Plankenhorn 2; SNG BN 908-21. 3.49gr, 15mm, 2h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Scythian, Imitative of Eukratides I AR Tetradrachm. c.130-80 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Diademed and draped bust right, wearing horned Boiotian helmet, within bead-and-reel border / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ, Dioscuri on horseback charging right, with couched spears and holding palm branches, monogram ANT in lower right field. HGC 12, 150. 15.63gr, 32mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Toned.
Property of a London, UK, private collector.
