LOT 3173
Judaea. Herodians, Agrippa I AE Prutah. Dated RY 6 (AD 41/2). Jerusalem mint.
Three ears of corn; L Ϛ (date) across fields / BACIΛЄ[ധC AΓPI]ΠA, canopy. RPC I, 4981; TJC 120; Hendin GBC 6, 6274; Hendin GBC 5, 1244; Sofaer 153-6. Near Very Fine.(2.27gr, 17mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Pamphylia, Aspendos AR Stater. 5th century BC. Contemporary imitation(?)
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Warrior advancing to right, holding shield and spear / Triskeles(?). 9.53gr, 20mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine. Numerous test cuts.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Phoenicia, Ake-Ptolemaïs AE 16mm. Dated year 9 of the Caesarean Era (41/0 BC).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Jugate laureate and draped busts of the Dioskouroi to right, each surmounted by a star / Tyche standing to left on rudder, holding aphlaston, cornucopia, and palm branch; L Θ (date) across upper field, IE A[...] NO-M across lower field, two monograms to outer left. Kadman, Ake 47; HGC 10, 27; DCA 746. 2.92gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. 261-246 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head of Antiochos I to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ [A]NT-IOXOY, 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 him; monogram of MATP to outer left and monogram of HPAE to outer right. SC 587.4c; ESM 190; HGC 9, 236g. 16.04gr, 27mm, 8h.
Very Fine. Toned.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
