LOT 3279
Judaea. First Jewish War AE Prutah. Dated Year 2 (67/8 CE). Jerusalem mint.
'Year two' in Paleo-Hebrew, amphora with broad rim and two handles / 'The freedom of Zion' in Paleo-Hebrew; vine leaf on small branch with tendril. TJC 196a; Sofaer 11-4; Hendin GBC 6, 6389; Hendin GBC 5, 1360. Near Very Fine.(2.35gr, 15mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Seleukid Empire, Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes) AE 19mm. Dated SE 177 (136/5 BC). Antioch on the Orontes mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Winged bust of Eros to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ to left, Isis headdress resting on two grain ears and inverted crescent; monogram above Φ to outer left, ZOP (date) to inner left, crescent beneath main type. SC 2067.12; HGC 9, 1087. 5.43gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Troas, Gergis AR Tetrobol. Circa 5th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Sphinx seated to right / Athena wearing Corinthian helmet to left; within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references, but cf. Asia Minor Coins online #11089 (Sphinx with forepaw raised). 1.51gr, 12mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine. Very rare.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 58, 20 June 2019, lot 228. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Ionia, Smyrna AE Homereion. Circa 105-95 BC. ΑΠΑΤΟΥΡΙΟΣ (Apatourios), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Laureate head of Apollo to right / ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΑΠΑΤΟΥΡΙΟΣ, Homer seated to left, resting chin on hand and holding scroll; monogram of ΠΑΡ to left. Milne, Autonomous, Period XIII, 278. 7.99gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Lovely dark green and brown patina.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
Strabo mentions specifically this issue of bronze coinage from Smyrna when, discussing the city, he says "there is also a library; and the 'Homereum', a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called a Homereum" (Strabo, Geographica XIV, I.37, transl. by H.C. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, VI [Loeb, 1960], pp. 245-247).
