LOT 3130
Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III AR Drachm. Struck under Menander, circa 324/3 BC. Sardes mint.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, legs spread, 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; monogram of EY in left field, rose beneath throne. Price 2553; ADM I Series IX. Very Fine.(4.26gr, 16mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 2000s.
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Nabataea, Uncertain King PB Tessera or Token. 1st century BC-1st century AD.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Male head to right / Bull butting to left. Cf. CN Category II, Group K, fig. 11.10; cf. Younis Al-Qatanani, Nabataean Coins, p. 141, 250, t1. 1.91gr, 13mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
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Islands off Attica, Aegina AR Stater. Circa 525-475 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Sea turtle, head in profile, with thin collar and row of dots down its back / Incuse square with mill-sail pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIa-b; Milbank pl. I, 11; Asyut Group IV; HGC 6, 429. 12,22gr, 20mm.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Emporium Hamburg, Alpha Auction 10, 8 January 2023, lot 73. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Judaea, Caesarea Maritima AE 'Minim'. 1st-3rd centuries AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Turretted head of Tyche to right; three pellets before / Palm tree; three pellets(?) to left. Cf. Hamburger, “Minute Coins from Caesarea,” ‘Atiqot I (1955), 17-19 (different marks on obverse). 0.60gr, 10mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
