LOT 2970
Judaea. Herodians, Herod II Archelaus AE Half Prutah. Circa 4 BCE-6 CE.
Jerusalem mint. Prow to left; HP[ധ] anticlockwise around / Є[ΘN] within wreath. RPC I 4916; TJC 72; Hendin 1197. Very Fine.(1.66gr, 15mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Group of Eight [8] AR Sigloi of Achaemenid Empire. 5th-4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £300
Various types. 44.66gr total.
Fine to Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Seleucid Empire, Antiochos III AR Drachm. 222-187 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Uncertain mint of the periphery of the Seleucid empire. Diademed head to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-IOXOY, Apollo Delphios seated on omphalos to left, holding arrow with his right hand and resting his left on a bow leaning against the omphalos behind him; AP and MYP monograms placed sideways to outer left. SC 1292 corr. (reading of the monograms) = BnF, R 2176; HGC 9, 452o (R3). 4.11gr, 17mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Exceedingly rare.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
Thrace, Byzantion in alliance with Kalchedon AE 28mm. 300-200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter to right / ΒΥZΑN ΚΑΛΧΑ, Poseidon seated to right on rock, holding aphlaston with right hand and transverse trident with left; ΠΑΡ monogram in inner right field. Schönert-Geiss 1271-1275; HGC 3.2, 1428. 9.37gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine. Struck on a large oval flan.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
