LOT 3282
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 104-76 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Rose flanked by "Yehonatan the King" in classic style paleo-Hebrew / [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] AΛEΞAΔ[POY], inverted anchor within circle. TJC N, Sofaer 214-219; GBC 6, 6184; HGC 10, 636. Very Fine.(2.42gr, 16mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
For a discussion of the flower on the obverse and its similarity to the Rhodian rose see GBC 6, p. 153-7.
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LOT 3282
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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South Arabia, Himyar AR Unit. 1st century AD. 'Bucranium Series'.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Diademed male head to right; curved symbol of Almaqah to right, symbol of Athtar to left; disc-crescent of Dhat-Hamim above; musnad letter below / Head of antelope facing; monogram to left, curved symbol of Almaqah to right; disc-crescent of Dhat-Hamim above. Munro-Hay 2.3ai; SNG ANS -. 1.91gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
Private Collection, acquired 1980–1985. -
Ionia, Smyrna AE Homereion. After 190 BC. EΡΜΟΛΑΟΣ ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΟΝΤΟΣ (Hermolaos, son of Parmenion), magistrate.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Laureate head of Apollo to right / Homer seated to left, holding scroll, transverse sceptre behind; [Z]MYPNAIΩN to right, EPMOΛAOΣ ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΟ[NΤΟΣ] in three lines to left. BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Milne (NC 1927) Pg. 88, No. 302. 8.84gr, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Dark green patina. Extremely Rare.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian.
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). -
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera AE Diobol-80 Drachmai. Circa 51-30 BC. Alexandria mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Diademed and draped bust to right / BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ [KΛEOΠATΡAΣ], eagle standing to left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, Π (mark of value) to right. Svoronos 1871; SNG Copenhagen 419-21. 12.42gr, 25mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Heavily tooled and smoothed.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
