LOT 2640
Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AE Unit. 336-323 BC. Uncertain mint in Macedon. Lifetime issue.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ between club to right and quiver to left; bunch of grapes to left, above; Δ, below. Price 283 var. (Δ above, grape bunch below). Near Extremely Fine. Extremely rare; unpublished in Price and possibly unique.(7.83gr, 18mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Seleukid Empire, Seleukos I Nikator AR Tetradrachm. Second satrapy and kingship, struck circa 311-300 BC. Babylon I mint. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon.
Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £444
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; MI in left field, monogram of MHTP in wreath beneath throne. SC 82.4a; Price 3751; HGC 9, 10f. 17.11gr, 27mm, 3h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea. Hasmoneans, Alexander Jannaios (Yehonatan) AE Prutah. 103-76 BCE. Jerusalem mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
'Yehonatan the King' in paleo-Hebrew between rays of eight-rayed star; all within diadem / [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ] ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ], upright anchor. Hendin 6189; Meshorer Group K; HGC 10, 637. 4.13gr, 17mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 17mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; H-[F] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Meshorer, Nabataea 114. 3.50gr, 17mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
