LOT 3784
Kingdom of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos AR Drachm. Struck as Strategos or king of Asia, in the name and types of Alexander III. 'Kolophon', circa 310-301 BC.
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to right, crescent in left field, monogram below throne. Price 1827; Müller 273. Good Very Fine.(4.25gr, 18mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceEx Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 97, 26 May 2022, lot 211.
Acquired on UK art market.
Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
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LOT 3784
Kingdom of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos AR Drachm.
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£49 (EUR 57; USD 66) +BP*
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Mysia, Adramyteion(?) AE 9mm. Orontes, Satrap of Mysia, circa 357-352 BC.
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Wreathed female head (Io?) to right, wearing sphendone / Forepart of Pegasos to left; OPON below. Troxell, Orontes -; cf. SNG BnF 1223-1226 (Lampsakos); cf. SNG Copenhagen 206-207; BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; otherwise unpublished. 0.67gr, 9mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; unpublished.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Kingdom of Macedon. Time of Philip II to Alexander III AV Quarter Stater. Pella mint, circa 340/336-328 BC.
Estimate: £900 - 1,300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £455
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Bow, club and trident; ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ between. Le Rider 68-74 (D51/R36); SNG ANS 224; HGC 3.1, 851. 2.12gr, 11mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 94, 24 February 2022, lot 167. Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
Lucania, Metapontion AR Didrachm or Nomos. Circa 330-290 BC. Struck under the magistrates EY- (Eu-) and ΛY- (Ly-).
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £800
Head of Demeter to right, wearing grain wreath, pendant earring and pearl necklace; ΕΥ beneath chin / ΜΕΤΑ, ear of barley with leaf to right; above leaf, sixteen-rayed star; in the lower field to left, ΛΥ. ANS 499 (same dies); Johnston C.8.12 (same dies). 7.77gr, 21mm, 1h.
Near Extremely Fine. Attractive toning with iridescence in fields. Well-centred.
Property of a late collector. Ex Vinchon, 11 April 1988, 185. Ex Münzen und Medaillen FPL 342, February 1973, 6.
