LOT 3233
Karia, Mylasa AR Drachm. Circa 300 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to right, monogram in Ω in left field, KΛ below throne. Price 2478. Extremely Fine. Rare.(4.24gr, 17mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceEx Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 103, 24 November 2022, lot 505.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XXX, 21 March 2024, lot 252.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy III Euergetes AE Diobol. Circa 246-222 BC. Tyre mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing taenia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with wings closed standing to left on thunderbolt; club to left. CPE B467; Svoronos 707; SNG Copenhagen -. 22.92gr, 31mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Acquired from Baldwin's, February 1988. From Pavlos S. Pavlou Collection. Ex Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, E-Auction 57, 25 March 2018, lot 82. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
Kings of Armenia, Tigranes II AE Dichalkon. Dated RY 6 (91/0 BC). Nisibis mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Head of Tigranes II to left, wearing four-pointed tiara decorated with star and tied with diadem; to left, c/m: APK within rectangular incuse / BAΣΙΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY TIΓPANOY, tree; in inner left and right fields, I ς (date). Kovacs 64. 3.83gr, 17mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Herodians, Herod I AE Prutah. 40-4 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £60
HPW[...], anchor / Caduceus between crossed cornucopias. Meshorer 59; Hendin 1188; HGC 10, 661. 1.94gr, 15mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
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.
