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LOT 2646
Kingdom of Macedon, Demetrios I Poliorketes AE 12mm. Struck circa 300-295 BC. Salamis mint.
Head of Athena to right, wearing Corinthian helmet adorned with bull's horn / Prow of galley to right; BA above, monogram of MNOY below. Newell, Demetrius 20; SNG Alpha Bank 954-5; SNG Copenhagen 1194; Lindgren 1306; Tziambazis 25. Near Very Fine.(2.33gr, 12mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Dynasts of Lykia. Uncertain dynast AR Third Stater or Tetrobol. 5th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Forepart of goat or horse to left / Triskeles within incuse square. Traité -; Müseler -; Vismara -. 2.87gr, 14mm, 12h.
Good Fine. Apparently unpublished.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Illyria, Dyrrhachion AR Drachm. Circa 80/70-60/55 BC. ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΣ (Meniskos) and ΛΥΚΙΣΚΟΣ (Lykiskos), magistrates.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Cow standing to right, looking back at suckling calf standing to left below; MENIΣKO[Σ] above, [statue of Isis to right] / Double stellate pattern in double linear square; ΔYP ΛY-KIΣ-KO[Y] around; all within linear circle border. Ceka 325; Maier 278; HGC 3, 40. 3.13gr, 18mm, 10h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent. -
Euboia, Histiaia AR Tetrobol. Circa 196-146 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Wreathed head of the nymph Histiaia to right / ΙΣΤΙ-ΑΙΕΩΝ, the nymph Histiaia seated to right on stern of galley, holding stylis; wing on galley. HGC 4, 1525. 1.95gr, 14mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
