LOT 3767
Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AE 20mm. Struck under Asandros, circa 323-319 BC. Miletos mint.
Diademed head (of Apollo?) to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, horseman riding to right; behind, labrys and monogram; below monogram of ME within circle. Price 2133. Near Very Fine.(4.65gr, 20mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceEx N&N.
From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady.
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LOT 3767
Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AE 20mm.
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
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Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. 312-281 BC. Uncertain mint. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; AΛEΞANΔPOY to right, BAΣIΛEΩΣ below, monogram to left, ΘE below throne. SC 295; Price 3786 (Babylonia); HGC 9, 10h. 17.01gr, 27mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex UK private collection. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos II Theos AR Tetradrachm. 261-246 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £55
Diademed head of Antiochos I to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANT-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; monograms to outer left and right. SC 587.3. 16.49gr, 28mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Islands off Ionia, Samos AR Tetradrachm. Dated RY 3 (452/1 BC) (restoration era date).
Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £4,444
Facing lion scalp / Forepart of ox to right; ΣA above, olive branch to left, Γ (date) below; all within incuse square. Barron Class VII, 72a (A33/P72) (this coin); Slg. O'Hagan 591 (this coin); Coll. Berlin (Fox coll.); HGC 6, 1190. 12.96gr, 24mm, 9h.
Near Extremely Fine. Amazing old cabinet tone. Well centred and of fine style. Extremely rare date (no other examples on CoinArchives).
Ex Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 23 March 1896, lot 592. Ex Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 4 May 1908, lot 591. From Hyman Montagu (1844-1895) collection. From Henry Osborne O'Hagan, Esq. (1853-1930) collection. Ex Cahn, 1951. Ex Bourgey Emile, Collection de Monnaies Grecques Gauloise-romaines, Hôtel Drouot Sale, Paris, 13 June 1952, lot 127. Ex Münzen & Medaillen, Basel. From Rollin & Feuardent (William Talbot Ready), London. Acquired privately from Jean Vinchon, Paris.
