LOT 2976
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. 37-43 CE.
Jerusalem mint. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). [BACI]ΛЄ[ധ]C 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. Near Very Fine.(2.92gr, 18mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Sicily, Syracuse AE 15mm. Time of the Second Democracy, circa 415-405 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Head of Arethousa to left, with her hair bound by ampyx in the front and sphendone in the back; olive branch behind / ΣYPA, dolphin swimming to right above scallop shell. CNS II, 24; HGC 2, 1480. 3.49gr, 15mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Phrygia, Apameia AE 19mm. Circa 200-48 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Laureate head of Serapis to right, wearing headdress of Isis / AΠAMEΩN, piloi of Dioscuroi surmounted by star flanking; all within laurel wreath. SNG Copenhagen 160 ('Zeus'); SNG von Aulock 3465 (same). 6.58gr, 19mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Seleucid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Second satrapy and kingship, 312-281 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Seleukeia on the Tigris II mint. Struck circa 296/5-281 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ, Athena, brandishing spear, shield on left arm, in quadriga of elephants to right; above, AYPH monogram beneath shield, Θ to right of anchor. SC 130.43a; ESM 122; HGC 9, 18a. 16.90gr, 25mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine. Die break on obverse.
Private collection of a North London lady before 2000. Property of a London gentleman.
