LOT 3291
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (41/2 CE). Jerusalem mint.
BACIΛЄധC 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.(2.76gr, 18mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Nabataea, Uncertain King PB Tessera or Token. 1st century BC-1st century AD.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Male head to right / Bull butting to left. Cf. CN Category II, Group K, fig. 11.10; cf. Younis Al-Qatanani, Nabataean Coins, p. 141, 250, t1. 1.91gr, 13mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AR Tetradrachm. 281-261 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head to right / ΒAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo Delphios, nude but for chlamys draped from his waist, wearing laurel wreath and seated on omphalos to left, testing arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind; to left, monogram of AP; to right, monogram of XA inside circle. SC 379.3c; HGC 9, 128g. 16.57gr, 28mm, 4h.
Very Fine. Toned. Well centred.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Thrace, Mesambria AE 21mm. Circa 175-115 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Diademed female head to right / Athena Promachos to left, between MEΣAM-BPIANΩΝ downward to each side, helmet in inner left field. SNG Stancomb 236; SNG BM Black Sea 284-6; HGC 3.2, 1573. 6.48gr, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
