LOT 2788
Judaea. Herodians, Herod I AE Half Prutah. 40-4 BCE.
Jerusalem mint. [ΗPΩΔOΥ] ΒΑCΙΛ[ΕΩΣ], tripod table / Palm frond upright within circle. Hendin 6217; TJC 56; Sofaer 52. Very Fine.(0.63gr, 11mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 2788
Judaea. Herodians, Herod I AE Half Prutah.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
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Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 454-404 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £276
Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Dewing 1591-8; SNG Copenhagen 31; HGC 4, 1597. 16.44gr, 23mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Sasanian Kingdom, Vahram (Bahram) II, with Queen and Prince 4 AR Drachm. AD 276-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
'Ctesiphon' (?) mint. Jugate busts of Vahrām (Bahram), wearing winged crown with korymbos, and his queen, wearing kolah with boar's head, to right, vis-a-vis bust of Prince 4, wearing kolah with eagle's head, left / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants facing outward, each wearing winged crown with korymbos; fravahar to left of flames. Cf. SNS type VIa(1)/2(1a), Style A. 3.56gr, 26mm, 3h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK market before 2000. Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 103-76 BCE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Jerusalem mint. Star of eight rays surrounded by diadem / [ΒΑΣΙΛ]ΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝ[ΔΡΟΥ], upright anchor. Hendin 6189; Meshorer Group K; HGC 10, 637. 2.23gr, 16mm.
Very Fine. Obverse struck off center.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
