LOT 3148
Judaea. Hasmoneans, John Hyrcanus I AE Prutah. Uncertain SE date, 131-129 BCE. Jerusalem mint. In the name of Seleukid king Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes).
Upright anchor; [BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY] to left, [EYEPΓETOY] to right, [date] below / Lily. Sofaer 4-5; TJC p. 30; Hendin GBC 6, 6165; Hendin GBC 5, 1131; SC 2123. Near Very Fine.(3.01gr, 15mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Mysia, Kyzikos AR Hemiobol. Circa 500-450 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Forepart of boar to left, retrograde K on shoulder; to right, tunny fish upwards / Head of roaring lion to left with bristling mane, and dotted truncation, in upper left field, facing head of panther; all within incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX Kyzikos, Gruppe II 13; SNC BnF 386. 0.39gr, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II AE Unit. 359-336 BC. Uncertain mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Diademed young male head to right / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, youth on horseback to right; uncertain monogram below. Cf. HGC 3, 882. 5.63gr, 18mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos IV Epiphanes AE 34mm. 169-168 BC. Antioch on the Orontes mint. 'Egyptianizing' series.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Laureate head of Zeus-Serapis to right, wearing tainia with Osiris cap at tip / Eagle with closed wings standing to right on thunderbolt; BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ to left. SC 1413; Houghton 118; Newell, SMA 59; HGC 9, 643. 39.68gr, 34mm, 1h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
