LOT 3109
Kingdom of Macedon, Demetrios I Poliorketes AR Tetradrachm. 291-290 BC. Pella mint.
Diademed and horned head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, Poseidon, nude, standing to left, right foot propped on rock, holding trident and resting on leg; monogram to outer left. Newell 82; SNG Copenhagen 1177-9 var. (monogram). Good Very Fine. Some surface marks, knock to edge 6/3h.(17.03gr, 27mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceEx Roma Numismatics Ltd, E-Sale 57, 30 May 2019, lot 327.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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LOT 3109
Kingdom of Macedon, Demetrios I Poliorketes AR Tetradrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
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Mysia, Lampsakos AR Tetartemorion. Circa 510-490 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Archaic style female(?) head to left, wearing tainia / Helmetted head of Athena to left within incuse square. Cf. SNG Arikantürk 3, 613. 0.15gr, 6mm, 10h.
Near Very Fine. Edge chipped. Very rare.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AR Tetradrachm. 281-261 BC. Seleukeia on the Tigris mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Diademed head to right / ΒAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY, 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; to left, monogram of AP; to right, monogram of XA inside circle. SC 379.3c; HGC 9, 128g. 16.57gr, 28mm, 4h.
Very Fine. Toned. Well centred.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
Troas, Larissa-Ptolemais AE 21mm. 4th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Bearded male head to right / ΛΑΡΙΣΑΙ, amphora; grain ear to right. BMC 1 (Larissa Phrikonis in Aeolis); Robert L., Études de numismatique grecque, pl. 4, 6-7. 8.67gr, 21mm, 1h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
