LOT 3264
Kingdom of Axum, Wazena (Ella Gabaz) AE Unit. Circa AD 550-570.
Draped bust to right, wearing head cloth, holding wheat stalk topped with cross; Ge'ez legend "May this please the peoples" around / Cross crosslet with gilt punch holed centre crossed by oblique cross; Ge'ez legend "of Wazena, of the King" around. SACAM 391; H 70; Munro-Hay Types 118-123. Near Very Fine. Pierced.(1.26gr, 17mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 3264
Kingdom of Axum, Wazena (Ella Gabaz) AE Unit.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Persia. Achaemenid Empire, Time of Darius II to Artaxerxes II AR Siglos. Circa 420-375 BC. Sardes mint or subsidiary mint. Type IV (middle) B. Lydo-Milesian standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance to right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left / Oblong incuse punch. Carradice Type IV, Group B. 5.50gr, 15mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland. From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
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Mysia, Kyzikos AR Hemiobol. Circa 500-450 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Forepart of boar to left, retrograde K on shoulder; to right, tunny fish upwards / Head of roaring lion to left with bristling mane, and dotted truncation, in upper left field, facing head of panther; all within incuse square. Von Fritze, Nomisma IX Kyzikos, Gruppe II 13; SNC BnF 386. 0.39gr, 10mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Crete, Knossos, AE 13mm. c.200-67 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Laureate head of Apollo left / square labyrinth. Svoronos 93; SNG Copenhagen 375. 1.96gr. 13mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
Property of a London, UK, private collector.
